492 
EEPOBT ON THE EXPLORATION OE BEIXHAM CAVE. 
The substance of Table I. is given in a compendious form in Table II. 
Table II. 
Beds. 
Steep 
Slide 
Hole. 
Reindeer 
Gallery, 
North. 
Reindeer 
Gallery, 
South. 
Flint-knife 
Gallery. 
West 
Chamber. 
Pen 
Gallery. 
South 
Chamber. 
King’s 
Gallery. 
Keeping’s 
Gallery. 
Totals. 
Stalagmite 
First Bed 
11 
52 
247 
6 
7 
1 
6 
25 
52 
1537 
7 
Third Bed 
Fourth Bed 
6 
519 
507 
1 
244 
9 
4 
1 
Totals 
6 
316 
519 
515 
244 
1 
15 
4 
1 
1621 
Of the bones connected with the stalagmitic floor, two deserve particular mention. 
At G7 feet from the North Entrance, and on the eastern side of the Reindeer Gallery, a 
fine bone, identified by Dr. Falconer as the humerus of Bear, was found imbedded within 
the floor, which was beautifully white and stainless. It lay with its longest axis in the 
plane of the floor, and no trace or indication of it was discoverable from either the upper 
or the lower surface. On the same side of the gallery, a few feet further south, a little 
beyond the junction of the two chief galleries, lay a fine Reindeer antler. It was found 
lying on the stalagmite, firmly attached to but not imbedded in it ; indeed some portions 
of it were completely free from more than the slightest incrustation (ante, p. 477). 
From Table II. it is seen that the third was the ossiferous bed; it yielded 1537 of 
the 1621 bones found in the cavern — that is, 95 per cent, of the whole series. They were 
more abundant at the sides than in the middle of the galleries, and on the whole were 
larger and of darker colour in the lower part of the bed than in the upper. Occasion- 
ally some of those which were discoloured bore marks somewhat resembling such as are 
sometimes left by mosses on stones on which they have grown ; whilst on some others 
were found the teeth-marks of the animals by which they had been gnawed. 
In some parts of the two principal galleries the fossils were confined to an upper and 
lower band of the bed, which were separated by an intermediate layer of a very fine 
loam, usually about 9 inches thick, and destitute of stones as well as bones. 
The distribution of the fossils, as to depth, in this bed is shown in Table III. 
Table III. 
Depths in the Third Bed. 
Branches of the Cavern. 
On the 
From 
From 
From 
From 
From 
From 
From 
From 
From 
From 
From 
From 
From 
sur- 
0 to 1 
1 to 2 
2 to 3 
3 to 4 
4 to 5 
5 to 6 
6 to 7 
7 to 8 
8 to 9 
9 to 10 
lOtoll 
11 to!2 
12tol3 
Totals. 
f&Ccb 
foot. 
feet. 
feet. 
feet. 
feet. 
feet. 
feet. 
feet. 
feet. 
feet. 
feet. 
feet. 
feet. 
Steep Slide Hole 
3 
3 
6 
Reindeer Gallery, North 
2 
91 
17 
83 
43 
8 
O 
247 
Reindeer Gallery, South 
511) 
519 
Flint-knife Gallery 
262 
55 
10 
39 
20 
108 
10 
3 
507 
West Chamber 
1 
51 
73 
13 
15 
5 
30 
2 
4 
50 
244 
South Chamber 
2 
4 
1 
2 
, 
9 
Keeping’s Gallery 
1 
• . . 
1 
King’s Gallery 
i 
i 
2 
4 
Totals 
786 
154 
29 
128 
114 
191 
23 
15 
8 
33 
2 
4 
50 
1537 
