THE CATTEDOWN BONE CAVE. 
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through which relics of small animals might have found their 
way, after access was barred to the larger. The most important 
fact elicited by the examination of this part of the cave was the 
association of bones and teeth of man, not only with hyaena, 
wolf, fox, deer, ox, and hog, but with the lion and the rhinoceros. 
The ancient character of the cavern fauna was emphasized. 
The order of the deposits in the northern chamber is shown in 
the section opposite. 
When completely explored, it was seen that the cavern consisted 
of a gallery, running north and south on the natural jointing of 
the rock, with a chamber at each end, the total length being fifty- 
four feet. At the point first opened, on the east, it had a breadth 
of four to five feet, and its walls were approximately perpendicular. 
At its northern end it expanded, near the level of the quarry 
floor, into a chamber, overhanging on the east ; while its western 
wall still remained practically perpendicular. This chamber again 
narrowed to its termination, which was formed by a narrow face 
of rock sloping southward, and it contracted so rapidly above as 
to give the impression that originally the gallery did not rise 
much above the dozen feet of rock which remained unworked 
on its western side, at the modern quarry level. But the total 
height, taking the results of the excavation into account, must 
have been much more than double this. The length of this 
chamber was twenty feet, and its greatest width eight. 
The southern chamber was twenty feet in length, more regular 
in shape, and did not exceed five feet in width. Its depth below 
the quarry floor was not more than nine feet. From the fact that 
the connecting fissure, or gallery proper, narrowed rapidly down- 
wards, the lower parts of the two chambers were separated from 
each other by nearly twenty feet of rock. 
The natural entrance to this gallery and its chambers was 
evidently from above, and apparently near the northern end. 
There is no reason to doubt that the cave formed the descending 
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branch of a large cavern or series of caverns, of which several 
traces remained in the hill above. There was direct evidence that 
the fissure had not extended to the surface. The character of 
the stalactites and stalagmites made it clear that it had originally 
a roof ; and it was equally evident, from the position occupied by 
the spoil -heap, that it must have been to a large extent empty 
when first broken into. The very considerable stalagmitic infiltra- 
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