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canines, furnislied the pork. This bill of fare was varied by 
the use of horseflesh. To this list must be added the venison 
of the roedeer and the stag, but the remains of these two 
animals were singularly rare. Two species of the domestic 
fowl, and a few bones of wild duck and grouse, complete the 
list of the animals which can with certainty be affirmed to 
have been eaten by the cave-dwellers." * 
Prof Dawkins shows that the coins of Trajan, Constan- 
tine, and Tetricus, and some barbarous imitations of Roman 
coins, assigned by numismatists to the time of the evacuation 
of Britain by the Romans, explain the singular abundance of 
articles of luxury in so rude a retreat. " We can hardly doubt 
that it was used in those troublous times by unfortunate pro- 
vincials, who fled from their homes, with some of their cattle 
and other property, and were compelled to exchange the 
luxuries of civilised life for a hard struggle for common 
necessaries." This would place the occupation of the cave by 
the Romanised Celts as somewhere not earlier than the 5th 
century. 
The Romano- Celtic layer was two feet down and two feet 
thick on the little plateau ; the charcoal and refuse bones of 
the temporary dwellers no doubt considerably contributed to 
this thickness. Lower down the slope the same layer was only 
covered by a foot, and sometimes less, of Post-Roman talus, 
and as it entered the cave in the other direction it came to 
the surface. This greater thickness would lie at a spot 
beneath the cliff', which was most exposed to falls of rock- 
fragments. 
The Neolithic Layer. — Beneath the Romano-Celtic layer 
was a thickness of about five or six feet of what had at some 
time been loose talus, but was now bound together, though 
not very firmly, by the deposition of carbonate of lime by 
dripping water. At the base of this the Committee discovered 
* Op. Cit., p. 65. 
