REPORT ON THE EXPLORATION OF BRIXHAM CAVE. 
523 
2 pm -9 x ’9 
3 pm *9 x "92 
1 m 1-35 x 1-10 
2 m 1-40 X 1-12 
The second premolar is peculiar in having a double columella, which is rather curious, 
since several other molar teeth were met with in the Flint-knife Gallery and in the West 
Chamber, all of which present the same peculiarity*. One of these, a third molar of 
the right side, in fact fits so exactly and corresponds in other respects so closely with 
the teeth remaining in the jaw, that one might almost suppose it belonged to the same 
set, were it not that it is very much more deeply stained with black. A left second 
upper molar, also found in the Flint-knife Gallery, and a third left upper molar found 
in the West Chamber, are furnished with the same double columella, and in most 
respects correspond so closely with the same teeth of the right side in the jaw, as almost 
to justify the supposition that they belonged to the same individual; they are, however, 
much more deeply stained and rather less worn. 
The peculiarity referred to in these teeth is shown in Plate XLYI. fig. 11. 
In the Flint-knife Gallery, besides the teeth above noticed, were found (1) another 
left third upper molai’, considerably worn, and showing the remains of a single colu- 
mella, and of a very dark colour ; (2) a left third upper premolar, very closely corre- 
sponding with the same tooth in the jaw above mentioned, though of a deeper colour, 
and clearly belonging to the same set as the second and third molars of the left side 
already described. And together with this tooth, which was found at a depth of 5 feet 
in the third bed, was found a second milk-molar of the right side, and considerably worn. 
The other remains, besides the teeth, found in the Flint-knife Gallery worthy of 
particular note are : — 
1. A sixth cervical vertebra, which in mineral condition closely resembles the jaw 
and two cannonbones found in the Reindeer Gallery. It occurred at a depth of 28 
inches in the third bed, and 19 feet from the entrance, in company with one of the 
molar teeth. The length of the body of this vertebra, measured in a plane parallel 
with the inferior surface of the body, is 3"-6, and the height of the posterior cup l"-4 ; 
it is therefore of about the same dimensions as in the common Ox. 
2. A second well-marked specimen is the nearly entire distal articular end of the 
radius of a much larger animal, and closely approaching Bos primigenius, if not identical 
with it. The antero-posterior diameter of- this bone-is 2"’2, and its transverse 3"'7. It 
is of a deep black colour, and has been manifestly gnawed by the Flyfena. 
3. Several gnawed splinters of long bones, for the most part of the tibia, also of very 
large size, and having the muscular impressions as well developed as in B. primigenius, 
and consequently much more so than in Bison jpriscus. 
The remains found in the West Chamber are, besides the tooth already mentioned, 
a fragment of the humerus and of the olecranon, and the neck of the scapula, all 
deeply coloured and gnawed by the Hysena. 
* The duplication of the columella appears to he common in teeth of Bos primigenius. 
