104 JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
Hoe fissures was made about the year 1844 by Mr. Edyvean. 
Observing about twenty feet above the path under the Hoe, close 
to the wall which divides the Hoe from the quarry, something 
pointed projecting from the soil, he took steps to dig it out, and 
unearthed two elephant tusks. One in the process of removal 
crumbled into cubical fragments. The other broke into three parts, 
but otherwise continued intact. One of these sections, retained by 
Mr. Edyvean, fell to pieces, however, while being dried for the 
purpose of being coated with a preservative composition. This 
tusk was six feet two or three inches in length, and two feet nine 
inches in girth at the base. 
Ossiferous caves have been discovered at Stonehouse, but the 
information concerning the earlier is very scanty. The first was 
opened somewhere about 1835.* Another is said to have been 
discovered while the works of the Great Western Docks were in 
progress ; but there is no trustworthy record of what either con- 
tained. About 1865 a cavern in the quarry above the Docks, on 
the Battery Hill, near the old Yacht Club house, was also found to 
be ossiferous, and some of the contents, obtained by Mr. C. Spence 
Bate, f.r.s., are deposited in our Museum. They include remains of 
rhinoceros, "horse, ox, and deer. Of Eqiius two species are repre- 
sented, one probably asinus. Of ox there are bones of the Bos 
longifrons. Of deer there are two species at least. The most 
remarkable bones of this series are the remains of antlers of red 
deer, Cervus elaphus, of great size, and part of the skull, with 
stumps of horns attached. The complete series was presented by 
Mr. Spence Bate to our Museum. 
Within the past few weeks (February, 1879) the resumption 
of the quarrying operations at this point has resulted in the finding 
of other bones in the remaining portion of the same cave. These 
were kindly brought under my notice by Mr. F. Brent, who has 
presented them to our Museum. The quantity is small, but the 
collection includes the tip of an antler (probably of Cervus elajphusY 
a fragment of a rhinoceros bone, and a calcaneum of horse. 
Caverns are much less frequent towards the western extremity 
of the limestone, and no ossiferous deposits therein have hitherto 
been recorded. I learn, however, that in 1861, while operations 
were in progress for the construction of the battery adjoining the 
grounds of the General's house, Mount Wise, part of the rock was 
* "Nat. Hist. South Devon," p. 440. 
