CONTAINING AN ENTIRE RHINOCEROS. 
63 
found so close together, are without doubt portions of a skeleton 
which lay entire in the middle of the cave before the materials that 
had filled it began to subside. There were no supernumerary bones, 
to indicate the presence of a second rhinoceros; but in the same 
cave were found some teeth and bones of a horse, and many entire 
bones from the legs of a very large ox, all apparently from one 
individual; also many bones of deer from at least four individuals, 
and fragments of horns, none so large as those of red deer, and some 
of them palmated. (See Plate XXII. fig. 3, 4.) None of these 
bones have marks of partial decay on one surface only, as at Kirkdale 
and Plymouth; and from this circumstance we may infer that they 
were derived from animals that perished by the waters that introduced 
them to the cave: they are of a yellowish brown colour, similar to 
those from Kirkdale. All these valuable specimens have, by the 
munificence of Mr. Gell, been deposited in the Oxford Museum*. 
F or some time after the cave was penetrated there was no apparent 
communication between its interior and the surface; but as the loose 
materials that at first filled it subsided into and were taken out by the 
shaft, a sinking appeared in the field above at I., and a further mass 
of the same kind, viz. argillaceous earth and fragments of limestone, 
mixed with a few rolled pebbles of quartz, continued to fall down¬ 
wards into it (like the contents of a lime-kiln, sinking towards the 
lower aperture by which the lime is extracted), until a large open 
chasm d, more than six feet broad, and fifty feet deep, was left en- 
* Mr. Gell has also in his possession the horn of a very large urus, that was found 
at a considerable depth in digging away the diluvium near the west mouth of the tunnel 
of the Cromford Canal, at Butterley, about thirty years ago. 
