1822-1824.] 
GOAT HOLE. 
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the edges of which had been chipped off, as if by striking 
a light. 1 . . . 
“ In another part I discovered beneath a shallow cover¬ 
ing of six inches of earth nearly the entire left side of 
a human female skeleton. The skull and vertebra,^and 
extremities of the right side were wanting ; the remaining 
parts lay extended in the usual position of burial and in 
their natural order of contact. In the middle of the bones 
of the ancle was a small quantity of yellow wax-like sub¬ 
stance resembling adipocere. All the bones were stained 
superficially with a dark brick-red colour, and enveloped 
by a coating of a kind of ruddle, which stained the earth, 
and in some parts extended itself to the distance of about 
half an inch around the surface of the bones. The body 
must have been entirely surrounded or covered over at the 
time of its interment with this red substance. Close to 
that part of the thigh bone where the pocket is usually 
worn, I found laid together and surrounded also by 
ruddle about two handsful of small shells of the Nerita 
littoralis in a state of great decay, and falling to dust on 
the slightest pressure. At another part of the skeleton, 
viz. in contact with the ribs, I found forty or fifty fragments 
of small ivory rods. ... In another place were found 
three fragments of the same ivory, which had been 
cut into unmeaning forms by a rough-edged instrument, 
probably a coarse knife, the marks of which remain on 
all their surfaces. One of these fragments is nearly of 
the shape and size of a human tongue. No metallic 
instruments have been as yet found amongst these remains, 
which, though clearly not coeval with the antediluvian 
bones of the extinct species, appear to have lain there 
many centuries. The charcoal and fragments of recent 
bone that are apparently the remains of human food, 
render it probable that this exposed and solitary cave has 
at some time or other been the scene of human habitation, 
1 Dr. Buckland states that the most remarkable of the remains of 
these animals are preserved in the collection at Penrice Castle, and in 
the museum at Oxford. 
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