FLINT IMPLEMENTS FOUND IN KENT’S CAVERN. 347 
The successive deposits were, in descending order :— 
Ist, or uppermost. Fragment and blocks of limestone from an 
ounce to upwards of 100 tons weight each, which had fallen from 
the roof from time to time, and were in some instances cemented 
together with carbonate of lime. 
2nd. Beneath and between the blocks just mentioned lay a 
dark-coloured mud or mould, consisting largely of decayed leaves 
and other vegetable matter. It was from three to twelve inches 
thick, and known as the Black Mould. This occupied the entire 
extent of the Eastern Division (with the exception of a small 
Chamber at its south-western end only) and the Chamber con- 
necting it with the Western Division, but it was not found in any 
other part of the Cavern. In other words, it was found in all the 
parts comparatively near to the external entrances, but not in 
those remote from them. » 
3rd. Under this was a Stalagmitic floor, commonly of granular 
texture and frequently laminated, varying from less than an inch 
to upwards of five feet in thickness, frequently containing large 
blocks of limestone, and from its prevalent structure termed the 
Granular Stalagmite. 
4th. An almost black layer, about four inches thick, composed 
mainly of small fragments of charred wood, and distinguished 
as the Slack Band, occupied an area of about 100 square feet, 
immediately under the Granular Stalagmite throughout about half 
its area, but covered with a thin layer of Cave-earth elsewhere ; 
* and, where nearest to it, was about 32 feet from one of the entrances 
to the Cavern. Nothing resembling it has up to the present time 
been found elsewhere. 
5th. Immediately under the Granular Stalagmite and the Black 
Band lay an accumulation of light-red clay, containing on the 
average about 50 per cent. of small angular fragments of lime- 
stone, and somewhat numerous blocks of the same rock as large as 
those already mentioned as lying on the Black Mould. In this 
deposit, known as the Cave-earth, many of the stones and osseous 
remains were, at all depths, invested with thin stalagmitic films; and 
it occasionally contained in a few localities large isolated masses of 
stalagmite having a very crystalline texture, sub-angular and rounded 
fragments of quartz and dark-red grit sometimes cemented into more 
or less round detached lumps of firm concrete, and a very few 
granitoid pebbles. The Cave-earth was usually of unknown depth, 
