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parallel series of cliambers and galleries, an eastern and a 
western, which penetrate the Devonian limestone in the line of 
the joints. It has a northern and a southern entrance, which 
occupy very nearly the same level on the low cliff on the eastern 
side of the hill; the latter are about fifty feet apart, from a 
hundred and eighty to a hundred and ninety feet above the 
level of mean tide, and about seventy feet above the bottom of 
the valley immediately adjacent.”* The largest chamber of the 
eastern series is sixty-two feet from east to west, and fifty-three 
from north to south. The contents of the cave may be divided 
into three great divisions : the pre-historic, which is represented 
by a layer above the stalagmite, but which in some places is 
covered with a thin stalagmitic crust ; that which lies under- 
neath the solid and continuous stalagmite ; and lastly, that 
which belongs to an epoch when an older stalagmitic crust was 
formed, which has been for the most part destroyed, but which 
is still represented by enormous detached blocks. In the first of 
these Mr. McEnery found fragments of pottery, calcined bones, 
charcoal and ashes, and arrow-heads of flint and chert. The 
pottery is of the rudest description, made of coarse gritty earth, 
not turned on a lathe, ornamented by zigzag indentations similar 
to those found on the urns in the barrows of Wiltshire and in 
the cave of Kuhlock ; along with them were round slabs of 
roofing slate of a plate-like form, some crushed, others entire, 
which probably served for the covers of the cinerary urns, indi- 
cated by the fragments of pottery. Near the entrance he found 
articles of bone of three sorts, some of an inch long and pointed 
at one end, or arrowheads ; others about three inches long, 
rounded, slender, and likewise pointed.” They may have been 
either bodkins, or pins for fastening the garments of a savage 
race. 
The shaggy wolfish skin he wore 
Pinned by a polished bone before. 
The third article does not seem quite so easy to explain ; it 
is of a different shape, quite flat, broad at one end, pointed at 
the other the former retaining the truncated form of a comb 
which has lost its teeth. ‘^Nearer the mouth were collected a 
good number of shells of the mussel, limpet, and oyster, with a 
palate of the scams” (now in the Oxford Museum). In the 
same passage there was a stone hatchet or celt of syenite. As 
we advanced towards the second mouth on the same level were 
found, though sparingly, pieces of pottery and round pieces of 
blue slate, about an inch and a half in diameter, and about 
a quarter thick.” There were also several round pieces of 
sandstone grit, about the form and size of a dollar, but thicker 
* “ Report of the British Association,” 18G7, p. 24. 
