condition, but much faded in colour; after which again 
occurred jaws of the primitive dog and fox ; teeth of 
the ox and deer; clay, and fragments of pottery and char- 
coal. But as a doubt might still be attached to the most 
important part of the discovery — that of the human remains 
— as it might be inferred that their position was not con- 
clusive of an earlier residence, but might have been interred 
at that depth for security, by its Romano-British parents, 
when occupying the upper and last deposit, I made par- 
ticular inquiry of Mr. Hodgson, of Settle (an experienced and 
intelligent explorer of the caves, and who superintended Mr. 
Farrer's excavations), as to whether there was any indication 
whatever of a mixture of deposits or materials at this precise 
spot, which must have occurred if the grave had been simk 
through the upper beds of clay, rubbish, and charcoal, and 
he distinctly says, " The softer stalagmite had never been 
stirred or moved since its formation," — a point upon which a 
mistake could not easily be made, as the colour of the 
stalagmite, I know from experience, is uniform and pale. 
Finally, the occurrence of a small portion only of one of the 
horns of the megaceros in the west chamber of the cave is some- 
what strange, for if the animal had been washed in, or carried 
there as food, some of the bones would have been preserved 
also, they being more durable than the antlers ; yet the former 
have never been found in the north of England, which may 
perhaps be accounted for from the fact that this fine ruminant 
does not appear to have ever occurred in any number in this 
portion of Britain, the only other indication of its former 
residence in Yorkshire being that of the horns found at 
Cowthorpe, near Wetherby, in 1744: I therefore think it 
probable that a straggler may have died from some cause in 
the neighbourhood, and that a portion of one of its antlers 
had been torn off and carried into the cave by some of the 
carnivorous inhabitants of the district to devour at leisure, 
which we know at particular seasons would be comparatively 
