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met with, no relic of the age immediately preceding that of 
written history; in the hard stalagmitic breccia which sepa- 
rates the surface-soil from all below it we at once meet with the 
implements of Palaeolithic man, and the bones of the Pleistocene 
mammalia. Throughout the breccia, and in the various beds of 
cave-earth and red sand below it (see figs. 2 and 3), a vast quan- 
Eig. 2. 
SECTION IN THE ROBIN HOOD CAVE. 
a. Surface soil and thin "breccia, 2-3 in. 
b. Cave-earth, with flint and quartzite implements, teeth, bones, angular 
limestone fragments, and charcoal, 3 ft. 
c. Eed Sand with laminated clay, few bones 3 ft. 
1. Fox Hole ? 
tity of bones and teeth of animals were found, affording to the 
imagination a vivid picture of the abundant wild fauna of the 
district. About twenty different species have left their remains 
here, some of them, such as the horse, the rhinoceros, and the 
hyaena, in remarkable numbers. Is it asked how all these bones 
got entombed here, we have to point in the majority of cases 
to the hyaenas. These savage animals would, during the absence 
of man, be the lords of the caves, to which they would drag 
their numerous victims, and where they would devour them. 
The majority of the bones of the other animals, and even of the 
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