130 CAVE OF ZAHNLOCH—ITS POSITION HIGH. 
bones of sheep, dogs, foxes, and some smaller animals. These were 
not invested with stalagmite, and were in the same state with the 
recent bones discovered in the modern fissure at Duncombe Park. 
3. CAVE OF ZAHNLOCH. 
The next cave I propose to speak of is that of Zahnloch (or the 
Hole of Teeth), so called from the abundance of fossil teeth that 
have been extracted from it, and being situated about two miles on 
the south-east of Eabenstein. Its position is not like that of the 
other caverns I have to describe in this neighbourhood, in a cliff 
that flanks some one or other of the valleys, but near the summit of 
a hill called Hohen Mirschfeld, which rises above the main table¬ 
land, and forms one of the most elevated points of this district, 
being about 600 feet above the valley of Muggendorf. (See Plate XIX.) 
The entrance of this cave is a low oven-shaped aperture, in a very 
small rock, that projects through the grass in the north slope of a 
green and naked hill. It is visible at a considerable distance, and 
must have attracted notice from the earliest times: it is about ten 
feet broad, and four feet high, and leads immediately into an extensive 
crypt-like chamber, about 60 feet in length, and varying from 20 
to 40 feet in breadth, but so low that there are few parts in which it 
is possible to stand upright. From the edge of this larger chamber 
there branch off several smaller under vaultings, and on one side of 
it is a cavern the height of which is more considerable than that of 
the main chamber, and in the middle of which stands a large in- 
