352 JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
particular level; and some of each series were found at the greatest 
depth to which excavations have been carried in the Cave-earth. 
Mr. John Evans, a member of the Committee now engaged in 
the exploration of Kent’s Hole, who, in his great work on Ancient 
Stone Implements, has figured many of the Human industrial 
remains found in the Cave-earth,* has kindly allowed his blocks 
to be used in illustrating this paper. It has not been deemed 
necessary to make use of more than nine of these figures, which 
will suffice to give an idea of the typical specimens. The accompany- 
‘ing descriptions have been compiled from the Cavern Journal, the 
British Association Reports, and Mr. Evans’s work, just mentioned. 
Fig. 1 (No. 1163+ in the Cavern Journal, and Fig. 386 in 
Mr. Evans’s work,) 
represents, on the 
scale of one _ half, 
linear, an ovoid disc 
of grey cherty flint, 
carefully chipped on 

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slightly undulating 
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perimeter, except at 
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one spot on the side 
where blows seem to 
have been given in 
vain in attempting to 
remove a flake, and 

its bilateral symmetry 
is sensibly perfect. The traces upon the edge of wear or use are 
but slight. It was found in the ‘‘ Great Chamber,” 53 feet from 
the southern entrance to the Cavern, in the fourth foot-level of 
Cave-earth—the lowest to which it has been excavated—over 
* See “The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons, and Ornaments, of 
Great Britain.” By John Evans, r.n.s., v.s.A., &c. 1872, pp. 444-466, 
figs. 386-408. 
+ The numbers quoted from the “ Journal”’ are those, not of the specimens, 
but of the “finds” to which the specimens belong. 
