Edttoi'lal Comment. ISl 
one face, some apparently intended to be set in handles and 
others not. 
No instruments of bone or of ivory were found in this upper 
layer and the flints are mostly covered with a white or bluish 
patina sometimes very thick. 
Under this stalagmitic layer was a second ossiferous bed, 
usually red from the presence of iron ore, many fragments of 
which were found. 
Here occurred the following fauna: 
Rhinoceros tichorhinus, abundant. 
Equus caballus, ( horse ) very common. 
Sus scrofa ( pig ). 
Cervus elephus ( red deer). 
" canadensis? (elk). 
" megaceros ( Irish elk). 
" tarandus ( reindeer). 
Ovis aries ( sheep). 
Bos primigenius ( bison). 
Bos priscus ( aurochs). 
Elephus primigenius ( mammoth ) very abundant. 
Ursus spelseus ( cave bear ) scarce. 
Meles taxus ( badger). 
Canis vulpes ( fox). 
Canis lupus? (wolf) familaris? (dog). 
Mustela foina ( weasel). 
Hyena spehx'a (cave hyena) very abundant. 
Felis spehea ( cave lion) a few teeth. 
Felis catturs (cat). 
These determinations are due to M. Fraipont, professor of 
palaeontology at the University of Liege. 
Numerous hearths were also found on this layer composed of 
stones, and containing burnt wood and ashes. 
The materials used b}- the old inhabitants of this grotto were 
flint, phthanite, sandstone, chalcedou}-, opal, ivor}^ bone and horn, 
and the total number of implements obtained was very large. 
There are 140 " mousterian" points, most of them thick at the 
base and not intended for setting in handles, whose average dimen- 
sions are 4 inches long by 3 inches wide; a number of fine flakes 
and awls, and ari'ows or dart heads, of very fine workmanship, 
and some of them 5 inches long, resembling in type the "solu- 
trean" implements of the Dordogue, a single small core from 
which flakes have l^een taken, and numerous blocks rejected on 
