REPORT ON TPIE EXPLORATION OF BRIXHAM CAVE. 
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from the ochreous earth 30 inches* below the stalagmite. Professor Owen has noticed 
the occurrence of Reindeer remains in the ‘ Ash Hole ’ cavern of Berry Head, explored 
by the Rev. Mr. Lyte ; Dr. Falconer has identified skulls of the same species found in 
the Mendip caverns ; and Major Wood, of Stout Hall, has discovered skulls of it in the 
caves of Spritsail and Paviland, in Gower. 
“ In these instances there was no indication of their association with man ; but in the 
Brixham cavern the evidence, so far as it goes, clearly tends to show that the antler in 
question was one of the latest introductions into the cavern before the (road) Entrance 
was blocked up by the rubbish, and long subsequent to the entombment of the objects 
called ‘ Flint Knives.’ 
“ 7. On the whole we consider the progress made to be highly satisfactory, and the 
promise of future results to be so encouraging as to merit the best efforts of the Com- 
mittee to provide the means for following up the excavation. The grant from the 
Royal Society, together with Miss Burdett Coutts’s liberal donation, however carefully 
husbanded, will not cover the very moderate scale of expenditure within which the 
operations are at present conducted beyond the month of December. A further grant 
may with some confidence be expected from the Royal Society next summer ; but we 
invite the earnest attention of the Committee to devise ways and means to meet the 
expense of the excavation until then. 
(Signed) “ H. Falconer, M.D. 
“ Andrew Ramsay. 
“ 9th September, 1858.” “ Wm. Pengelly.” 
In November 1858, on the application of the Committee for assistance in making an 
exact plan of the cave, the Director-General of the Geological Survey, the late Sir 
Roderick Murchison, obligingly instructed Mr. Bristow, F.R.S., a member of the 
Survey, to proceed to Brixham and carry out the objects the Committee had in view. 
An excellent plan of the cave and various transverse sections were taken by Mr. Bristow, 
showing the form of the cave and the mode in which the cave-deposits were arranged. 
At that period the whole of the stalagmite, the bed of breccia, the cave-earth, and 
part of the lower bed of gravel had been removed. After the removal of the whole of 
the latter bed, and the cave had been completely emptied, the Committee employed 
Mr. Bovey, of Brixham, to complete the survey of those portions of the cave worked 
out subsequently to Mr. Bristow’s visit. The lower lines in the sections, and the 
central lines in the plan, form the additions made by Mr. Bovey. The result of this 
combined work has been carefully correlated and reduced to a small scale by Mr. Jordan, 
under the superintendence of Professor Ramsay. 
The map is compiled, from those of the Geological Survey and Dr. Holl, by your 
reporter, who has also introduced into Mr. Bristow’s sections some few alterations in 
the form of bed No. 4 and position of s', which were necessary in order to make them in 
* Should he 9 inches. The right figure is given in Dr. Falconer's notes. 
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