183 
which eventually bifurcated until at last it ended in 
branches which were too small to be explored. In these 
passages there were three masses of bones and of teeth 
compacted and matted together, the largest of which was 
about nine feet long, six feet wide, and about four inches 
thick. The following list will give an idea of the animals 
that were found in the cave, and the numbers appended to 
each representing the specimens taken to Oxford by Mr. 
Boyd Dawkins in 1862, after one season’s digging, show 
their relative abundance, 
Paleolithic Man 
The Cave or Spotted Hysena 467 
The Cave-lion -. 15 
The Cave-bear 27 
The Brown Bear 11 
The Grizzly Bear 11 
The Wolf 10 
The Fox 8 
The Mammoth 40 
The Woolly Rhinoceros 433 
Rhinoceros hemiioeclms 2 
The Horse 411 
The Urns 36 
The Bison...... 35 
The Irish Elk 56 
The Reindeer 50 
The Red deer 4 
The Rabbit 
The Norway Lemming 
The Water Rat 
The flint and chert implements were of precisely the 
same type as those found in the Reindeer caves of The 
Dordogne, and those of Kent’s Hole, and Brixham. This 
discovery proves that man was living in Somerset at the 
time when the above animals occupied the South of 
