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BRITISH CAMP ON THE HILL ABOVE. 
bitation, if to no other persons, at least to the woman whose bones I 
have been describing. The ivory rods and rings, and tongue-shaped 
fragment, are certainly made from part of the antediluvian tusks that 
lay in the same cave; and as they must have been cut to their pre¬ 
sent shape at a time when the ivory was hard, and not crumbling to 
pieces as it is at present on the slightest touch, we may from this 
circumstance assume to them a very high antiquity, which is further 
confirmed by the decayed state of the shells that lay in contact with 
the thigh bone, and, like the rods and rings, must have been buried 
with the woman. The wolf’s toe bone also was probably reduced to 
its present form, and used by her as a pin or skewer, the immediate 
neighbourhood being wholly destitute of wood. 
The circumstance of the remains of a British camp existing on 
the hill immediately above this cave, seems to throw much light on 
the character and date of the woman under consideration; and what¬ 
ever may have been her occupation, the vicinity of a camp would 
afford a motive for residence, as well as the means of subsistence, in 
what is now so exposed and uninviting a solitude. The fragments 
of charcoal, and recent bones of oxen, sheep, and pigs, are probably 
the remains of culinary operations ; the larger shells may have been 
collected also for food from the adjacent shore, and the small nerite 
shells either have been kept in the pocket for the beauty of their 
yellow colour, or have been used, as I am informed by the Bev. 
Henry Knight, of Newton Nottage, they now are in that part of 
Glamorganshire, in some simple species of game. The ivory rods 
also may have either been applicable to some game, as we use chess 
men or pins on a cribbage-board; or they may be fragments of pins, 
such as Sir Kichard Hoare has found in the barrows of Wilts and 
