FLINT IMPLEMENTS FOUND IN KENT'S CAVERN. 351 
6th. The period of the Crystalline Stalagmite and the Breccia— 
the most ancient period represented by the Cavern deposits so far 
as they are at present known—may be called the Ursine period ; 
these deposits having yielded a great number of remains of Bear, 
but, with the exception of a very few feline teeth, none of any 
other species. 

Flint and chert implements presented themselves in each of the 
mechanically-formed deposits, and, as in the case of the osseous 
relics, those belonging to any one of them were easily distinguish-. 
able from such as occurred in the other two. 
The implements of the Black Mould—the Ovine, or most modern 
period—were of the ordinary colour of common flints. They were 
mere flakes and ‘‘strike-lights,” the latter probably used and cast 
aside or lost by those who, during a long period, and before the 
invention of lucifer-matches, acted as guides to the Cavern. All 
further mention of them may be omitted, as not being noteworthy. 
In the same deposit were found many other human industrial 
remains, amongst which were spindle-whorls made of different 
kinds of stone, some ornamented and others plain; fragments of 
curvilineal plates of slate—perhaps covers of earthenware vessels ; 
amber beads; bone tools, including awls, chisels, and combs, the 
last being of the form and size of shoe-lifters, and having the teeth 
at the broad end; bronze articles, including rings, a fibula, a 
spoon, a spear-head, a socketed celt, and a pin; portions of cakes 
of smelted copper; and a great number and variety of potsherds, 
including fragments of Samian ware. 
Omitting flakes and mere chips, of which there were great 
numbers, the principal flint and chert implements found in the 
Cave-earth—the Hyzenine period—were ovoid and lanceolate, pro- 
duced by fashioning, not flint or chert nodules, but flakes purposely 
struck off them. They were of comparatively delicate proportions, 
and usually characterized by bilateral symmetry. Those of flint 
were commonly of a white colour and porcellaneous aspect, and, 
through metamorphosis, capable of being scratched with a knife 
and possessing a granular chalk-like texture. The Cave-earth and 
Black Band have also yielded several interesting bone implements, 
all met with in that part of the Cavern termed ‘‘ The Vestibule ”’ 
by Mr. Mac Enery, into which the northern entrance immediately 
opens. Neither the stone nor the bone tools were restricted to any 
