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Rhinoceros tichorinus and some hyaena teeth ; and continues to 
say the upper part of the floor of this cavern also contains a 
small piece of Samian ware, showing an ornamental rim, and 
with this two or three pieces of a coarse earthenware vessel ; a 
few recent bones of sheep were also found here.* 
As in Devonshire, so in Derbyshire, Rhinoceros tichorinus is 
found amongst the pottery ; the legitimate inference is that he 
was contemporaneous with the potters, Roman or pre-Roman, 
or Samian ; also that he lived when the modern sheep browsed 
in Creswell dale. 
Again, in the second report upon the caves, read before the 
same society, April 5th, 1876, reference is made to blasting the 
stalagmitic breccia which covered the cave-earth containing the 
bones and implements. In this breccia were fonnd teeth of 
both rhinoceros and hyaena, f 
And Professor Dawkins in his table of contents of Robin Hood 
Cave, under the head of Upper Breccia, enumerates the jaws 
and teeth as follows : — 1 specimen of Irish elk ; 1 of wild 
boar ; 3 of horse ; 2 of Rhinoceros tichorinus , and 6 of cave 
hyaena. J 
And in Mr. Mello’s third report, read April 11th, 1877, he 
says, “ The few remains found in the breccia consisted, as before, 
of bones of the hare, a few teeth of the larger pleistocene 
mammalia, Rhinoceros tichorinus, hyaena, bear, horse, &c. § 
Prof. Dawkins in his paper, read the same evening, says 
“ that the breccia of the previous exploration turned out to be 
a mere local deposit, which was represented in other parts of the 
cave by the upper strata of cave-earth.” || And in his paper at 
the conference, May 22, 1877, after describing the bone awls, 
needles, sketch of horse’s head, and associated mammalian 
remains of the cave-earth, he says that “ above the strata 
containing these remains was a layer of stalagmite ranging 
from one foot to a few inches in thickness.”1[ 
Wherever the stalagmite, or stalagmitic breccia existed, it 
was always above the cave-earth ; and where they did not exist, 
the upper stratum of cave-earth was their equivalent. What- 
ever, therefore, was found in this superincumbent layer of 
stalagmite, or in the stalagmitic breccia, or their equivalent, 
the upper stratum of cave-earth, must of necessity be more 
recent than the contents of the cave-earth below them, the 
upper deposits having been the last formed. 
I 
Quarterly Journal of Geological Society, vo 
Ibid. vol. xxxii. p. 242. 
Ibid. vol. xxxiii. p. 581. 
Journal of Anthropological Institute, vol. v 
. xxxi. p. 683. 
; Ibid. ]). 247. 
Ibid. 590. 
ii. p. 154. 
