562 
REPORT ON THE EXPLORATION OE BR1XHAM CAYE. 
no traces of having been worked at all. In the long interval since their discovery four 
specimens have been mislaid. The others may be sorted approximately as under : — 
Worked Flints ( imple- 
ments and chips). 
Flints not worked fj 
(■ natural forms). ) 
Nos. 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,10* 11,12, 
13, 17, 21*, 23*, 24*, 25*, 27*, 
28, 29, 30, 31*, 32*, 33, 35* . 24 specimens. 
Nos. 14+ 18, 19, 20, 22, 26, 34 . 7 
Nos. 2, 15, 16, and 36 are mislaid; but, on the other hand, there are three extra spe- 
cimens, one of which is worked and two are doubtful, upon whose numbers we cannot 
agree. 
Omitting the nine more doubtful specimens and mere chips, the distribution in the 
Cave of the worked forms of flints, such as may have been used by man, was as under : — 
Cave -earth . . . 
Reindeer 
Gallery. 
... 5 
Flint-knife 
Gallery. 
3 
West 
Chamber. 
1 
Pen and Keeping 
Galleries. 
2 
Total. 
11 - 
| 
Shingle bed . . . 
2 
0 
2 
0 
4 J 
[15 
While of the unworked flints the distribution is as 
follows : — 
Cave-earth . . . 
i 
0 
i 
0 
2 i 
Shingle bed . . . 
i 
2 
2 
0 
5 j 
1 7 
The four flint implements found in the bed of shingle were at depths of from 6 inches 
to 104 feet, or, including the overlying beds, of from 8 to 14 feet. As the bed of shingle 
is, on the whole, perfectly distinct from the succeeding cave-earth, there can be no doubt 
that the associated flint implements, unless subsequently introduced by some artificial 
means, date also anterior to the cave-earth ; and there is no appearance of the overlying 
ground, at the several places where they were found, having been disturbed either by man 
or by animals. In a few places mentioned by Mr. Pengelly the shingle, it is true, is 
partly mixed with cave-earth ; but there it seems to have been caused by the rapid influx 
or efflux of the flood-waters charged with the silt which formed the cave-earth, or to be 
owing to remnants of pebbles which remained lodged on the sides or roof when the 
shingle bed stood higher. They are evidently foreign to the bed, as the local fragments 
of limestone so common in it are all angular and show no indications of the action of a 
running stream to which the pebbles are due. 
The relative position of the bones of the Cave-animals and of two of these Flint 
Implements is shown in the following Table, based on Mr. Pengelly’s Table IV. and 
Mr. Busk’s lists : — 
t Specimen No. 3 is merely a fragment of slate nearly covered on one side with, stalagmite. 
t A specimen, No. 14-4 in the collection, corresponds in the description of its find in the “ Register” with 
No. 14 of Table IV. 
