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tracted posture. The skeleton was seen and examined 
by Mr H. N. Davies, and all the facts relating to the 
discovery were collected and placed on record by him.^ 
Lately, these remains have been more fully examined by 
Professor Parsons.^ In all its characters, the skull falls 
into the river-bed group. Its length is 196 mm. ; its 
width, 1 3 8 mm., is '70-4 per cent, of the length ; the height 
of the vault above the ear-holes, 115 mm. The brain 
capacity is estimated to be approximately 1450 c.c. It 
is thus 200 c.c. larger than the Langwith skull, and 
resembles that specimen in many of its features. The 
vault in both is 9 mm. thick. The face, however, is 
preserved in the Cheddar specimen, but it shows no 
exceptional feature. The thigh bone is 435 mm. long, 
from which we infer that the Cheddar man was of low 
stature — about 1620 mm. (5 feet 4 inches). The leg 
bone (tibia) shows the side-to-side flattening seen in 
Neolithic races — less commonly in races of Palaeolithic 
date. Thus we see, so far as the evidence will take us 
at present, that a people with the river-bed type of head 
inhabited England from the Aurignacian period onwards. 
In our search for the remains of cave man in England 
we pass from Somerset to the shores of Torbay, situated 
on the south coast of the neighbouring county of Devon. 
The bay, one of the most beautiful in England, is 
bounded by two headlands or horns, about five miles 
apart. Amongst the green, terraced, limestone hills of 
the northern headland is situated Torquay, with Kent's 
Cavern hid in a valley in the suburbs of the town ; on 
the southern headland is the busy fishing town of Brixham. 
In 1858, Mr Philp of that town was preparing to build on 
the limestone hill above the harbour, when his workmen 
opened an unknown natural subterranean passage or 
cavern — some 600 feet in length — from then onwards 
^ H. N. Davies, Quart. Jourfi. Geolo^. Soc, 1904, vol. Ix. p. 335. 
- Reports of Siventeenth Intcrimt. Med. Cottgrcss, 191 4, Section I., Part 
II , p. 91. Professors C. G. Seligman and F. G. Parsons contributed a 
paper on the Cheddar man and his civilisation which appeared in the 
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1914, vol. xliv. p, 241. 
The measurements given in the text are those by Professor Parsons. 
