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implements, of indisputable human workmanship,”* are for 
the greatest part, small undefinable pieces of rubble flint mixed 
"with a few imperfect subsoil flakes. ’ 
That the marks of use, on secondary chipping, so strongly 
asserted to be found on the edges of the flints, and so deafly 
shown on the woodcut, fig. 410 in Ancient Stone Implements,* 
are not to be found on the flint itself. 
That the flint described in Ancient Stone Implements as a 
remarkably symmetrical scraper, and said to be found in the 
cavern, J was not found there, but in the soil without and 
above it. 
That the cast of a very perfect flint-knife exhibited among 
other relics in the cavern, and sold to visitors as a cast of a 
cavern specimen, is a deception. 
That the portion of a cylindrical pin or rod of ivory, said to 
be found in the cave,§ was not found by the committee of 
exploration, is not now with the flints in the museum, and that 
there is no evidence to show that it is a cavern specimen. 
inat the “ charcoal bed” contains no charcoal.il That slate 
has been mistaken for flint, and flint for bone ; and that the 
description given of the “whole hind-leg of a cave-bear” 
the most famous specimen of the cavern, has been found to be 
so loaded with erroneous facts and false conclusions, that its 
evidence has been withdrawn and abandoned. 
. carefully-prepared report of the Royal Society^" does 
indeed, correct many of the mistakes which had been made • 
and we are indebted to Mr. Pengelly for further corrections 
and admissions, by the publication of his original report, drawn 
up m 1862 for the Cavern Committee,** with some recent 
additions. But these statements, buried in the transactions 
ot learned societies, are not accessible to the great mass of 
people who receive their information from popular lectures 
and cheap publications; and thus Brixham Cavern is still 
referred to as furnishing the best evidence of the high antiquity 
or man. 1 J 
If the facts which I have brought forward in this paper are 
true and undeniable, as I believe them to be, then we have a 
right to ask those by whom we have been misled to reconsider 
the evidence in this case; and either openly and honestly to 
* Cave Hunting, p. 320. 
it twS ! Stone /™P lc ™ ent s, p. 469. + Ibid., p. 470. § Ibid., p. 471. 
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