THE CATTEDOWN BONE CAVE. 
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that 16 occur in Kent's Hole, and not at Cattedown (including 
doubtfuls). The great peculiarity in Cattedown is the absence of 
the elephant, bear, and horse, each of which has been liberally 
represented at Oreston and elsewhere in the vicinity. The 
special distinction of Kent's Hole, on the other hand, is the 
exclusive possession of machairodus, lynx cervaria, canis isatis, 
beaver, and seal, found nowhere else in the county, and there only 
in such small quantity that some such remains may very well 
have been overlooked in earlier explorations elsewhere. The 
hippopotamus, if claimable, Kent's Hole may have to share 
with Oreston ; the wild cat it shares with Stonehouse ; the glutton 
with Yealmpton ; the reindeer with Brixham and Stonehouse ; 
the elk probably with Oreston ; the pika with Brixham. As its 
exclusive property, Cattedown claims the hedgehog and the mole. 
The human remains found are those of a number of individuals 
— at least fifteen — of both sexes, and ranging from childhood 
to old age. No single skeleton was complete ; but every bone 
in the human frame, so far as I know, was represented. The 
most perfect portions were skulls and jaws, and bones of the 
extremities — the smaller especially. In this, as in other respects, 
the aspect of the human remains precisely resembled that of 
those of the lower animals with which they were associated. 
The most perfect long bones are the humeri. The biggest 
is 11*75 inches in length; the smallest 11*2 inches, and this bone 
is very slender and perforated between the condyles. There is no 
perfect femur or tibia; but the biggest femur was probably 
between 15 and 16 inches, and the longest tibia 14 inches. 
The most interesting point concerning the tibiae is their 
markedly platycnemic or flattened character, in the extent of 
which they closely resemble platycnemic tibiae from Perthi 
Chwareu in North Wales. 
But likeness does not stop here. The longest of the Perthi 
Chwareu adult tibiae is bigger than the longest of the Cattedown ; 
and the least of the Cattedown is shorter than the smallest 
of the Welsh. Mr. Busk assigned the Perthi Chwareu bones 
to a race of low stature, ranging from 4 feet 10 inches to 5 feet 
6 inches. Lowness of stature is also a characteristic of the 
Cattedown folk. The data are imperfect, but assuming the usual 
proportions from the dimensions of humeri and femurs, four 
