Bones discovered in a cave at Kirkdale, in Yorkshire. 209 
Stag Three molar teeth. 
One first phalangal bone, right leg. 
Hyaena- — Two canine teeth, much worn. 
These bones were found in a cavity of mountain lime- 
stone, which was accidentally intersected, like the cave at 
Kirkdale, in working a quarry : they have a slight ochreous 
incrustation, and a little earthy matter adhering to them ; 
but are not in the least degree rolled ; and the condyles of 
the two humeri of the rhinoceros, belonging to different indi- 
viduals, have in each case been entirely broken off, as if by 
gnawing. The two canine teeth of hyaena (worn down to 
the stumps), that were found in the same cave with them, 
afford ground for probable conjecture as to the means by 
which those bones were thus broken, as well as introduced 
to this cave in Glamorganshire.* 
2. The next case I shall mention is that of teeth and bones 
of elephants and other animals discovered in the Mendip 
Hills in cavities of mountain lime-stone, which were lined, and 
nearly filled with ochreous clay. These are preserved in the 
collection of the Rev. Mr. Catcott, in the City Library at 
Bristol. The following account of them is extracted by my 
friend the Rev. W. D. Conybeare, from Mr. Catcott’s MS. 
notes ; he has added also a few explanatory observations. 
“ The ochre pits were worked about the middle of the last 
century, near the summit of the Mendip Hills, on the S. of 
* On comparing one of these humeri of the rhinoceros with a similar bone from the 
cave at Kirkdale, I found in each case both extremities of the bone broken or gnawed 
off exactly to the same point, i. e. just so far as was sufficient to extract the marrow 
and take off the most spongy portions of the extremities, whilst the parts remaining 
were only the hardest and most compact cylindrical portions of the centre of the 
bones in question. 
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