196 Explorations in the Bone Cave of £ allynamintra. 
Excepting a few metatarsals, no other parts of the skeleton were found 
in their natural positions, thus showing that they had becn first broken, 
and were subsequently strewn indiscriminately throughout the respective 
deposits. 
The two proximal fragments of left radii (Nos. 203, 239) not only prove the 
existence of two persons, but that one bone is larger than the other. In the case 
of the supra orbitals, there is nothing to show that they may not have belonged to 
the same individual, and whilst the ridges are more pronounced than in the gene- 
rality of crania of civilized races, these prominences are in no way very remarkable. 
Debris 
No. 4. | Crevices.| thrown out 
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Right or 
Left. No. 2. No. 3. 
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Parietal, . : : : i : a 
Temporal, A : : : : 1g Wy 
Occipital, . : ; : — 
Supra-occipital, : : ; ; — 
Ex-occipital, : ; 5 || 
Canine, . 6 6 : : a 
Premolar, 
Cervical, . 
Rib, 
Clavicle, . 
Radius, 
Ulna, 
Third Metacarpal, 
Fifth Metacarpal, . 6 
First Phalanx, 4th or 5th Metaearpal, 
Femur, ° 
Fibula, 
First Metatarsal, 
Third Metatar ll 
Fourth Metatar: ll 
Fifth Metatarsal, 
First Phalanx, 4th Met: stipes 
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‘he remains recorded from No. 1 Deposit are doubtfully referred to this stratum 
for the reason that they were found at the outset of the excavations, and before 
the two uppermost deposits had been satisfactorily differentiated. The blackened 
and dendritric appearances of the surfaces of several of these remains from No. 1 are 
so like the Irish elk’s and other bones of No. 2, and the fact that there was not 
always a very pronounced line of demarcation between the two uppermost deposits, 
make it not improbable that all the human bones were derived from No. 2 deposit. 
The same might apply to the bones found in the crevices and in the debris after 
the removal of the latter. The finger bone from No. 3 may have fallen into a crevice 
in the latter deposit, and become enveloped in its pale sandy earth. 
