MEN OF THE roo-FOOT TERRACE 167 
morning and evening. Two men were working the 
face at the south end of the pit ; two — Randall, 
Heron — the face at the north end. It was in the 
north face that the skull was found by the two 
men just named. They had broken into what is 
commonly termed a ' pot-hole,' into which it was 
impossible to see, as it lay 8 feet above the level 
of the floor of the pit, and about the same depth 
below the upper ground level. There was not 
the slightest appearance of any disturbance of the 
gravel such as might be produced by a deep grave 
above the pot-hole, and below the hole there were 
patches of sand, some loosely bedded large flints, 
and a black band that crops out at several points in 
the working. 
"On the morning of May 26th, 1902, I entered 
the pit soon after 6 o'clock, when the skull was 
handed to me out of a heap of sand in which it 
had been preserved during the night. I had been 
in the pit the previous evening, after the men had 
left, and noticed that there had been a ' fall ' of 
gravel from the north face. The men informed 
me that with the fall the pot-hole disappeared and 
the skull was found in the debris. The men and 
I agreed at the time the skull must have come from 
the pot-hole. 
" In the afternoon of the same day on which 
I obtained the skull, the north face of the pit 
was photographed for me by Mr E. H. Youens. 
Needless to say, I was impressed with the import- 
ance of the discovery. I oflFered rewards for the 
jaw, teeth, or any other bones ; but, after much 
careful searching and sifting, no other human 
remains were found except the small pieces from 
the black deposit at a subsequent date. I did 
not publish an account of the finding of the 
skull, as I did not wish to draw attention to what 
1 was doing with respect to the animal forms — 
figure-stones." 
