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No. of No. of 
Register. Fragments. 
400, 401 2 Portion shaft of metatarsal, black and dendritic (No. 2). 
402 1 . Ditto metacarpal, ditto ditto (No. 2). 
403 1 Ditto metacarpal or metatarsal, black and dendritic (No. 2). 
405 1 Fragment of tibia, left, ditto ditto (No. 2). 
406 1 Portion of femur left, split lengthways, ditto ditto (No. 2). 
408 1‘ Fragment of vertebra, ditto ditto (No. 2), 
409 1 Greater tuberosity of humerus, ditto ditto (No. 2). 
410, 411 2 Fragments of long bones, ditto ditto (No, 2). 
412, 413 2 Fragments of antler, palm and snag, ditto ditto (No. 2). 
414 1 Ditto _ long bone, ditto ditto (No. 2). 
415, 416, \ 3 { Portions of a beam of antler, much decomposed, gnawed? No. 450 is black and 
450 dendritic, No. 2. 
404, 431 2 Fragments of tibia, black and dendritic, No. 2. 
443 1 Distal end tibia, black and dendritic (No. 2). 
444-446 3 Splinters of long bones, split lengthways, black and dendritic (No. 2). 
455 9 Fragments of bone and antler, black and dendritic (No. 2). 
464 1 Fragment of antler, black and dendritic (No. 2). 
477 1 Fragment of beam antler, with surfaces worn off (No. 2). 
496 1 ‘Proximal phalanx, black and dendritic (No. 21), found in soil. under the GREENSTONE 
Crett. Plate XIII, fig. 5. 
497, 498 2 One fragment of left and | of right distal ends of humerii, gnawed? Black and den- 
dritic, also found with 496 in soil under the Crexr (No. 2 4). 
499 1 Lumbar vertebra, black and dendritic, found in soil under the Crtr (2 2). 
508 1 Fragment of antler, black and dendritic, from a crevice. 
513 1 Navicular cuboid, black, and encrusted with earth and fragments. of limestone in a 
crevice in the west wall, filled with dark soil. 
514 1 Half of distal articulation of metacarpal or metatarsal from same situation as 513. 
515 1 Proximal phalanx, pale-coloured, and free from dendritic marks, from the same 
situation. 
530 1 Distal end left humerus, violently split lengthways, gnawed, black, with dendritic 
marks, from a crevice in west wall, 4 feet below the surface of No. 1. 
531 1 Left caleaneum, gnawed ? blackened, with dendritic marks, from same situation as 530. 
532 1 Semilunar, dark-coloured at one end, from same situation as 530. 
533-538 6 Splinters of long bones ? Irish elk, excepting 537, fragment of a metacarpal or meta- 
tarsal, and 538, which is a fragment of an axis, and is white and abraded ; these 
are dark-coloured and dendritic, from same horizon as preceding. 
546 . if Proximal phalanx, black and dendritic, and encrusted with hard stalagmite, behind a 
portion of the west wall, which had fallen down. 
547 1 Fragment of centrum of vertebraof large animal, Irish elk? porous, and encrusted with 
stalagmite ; same situation. 
548, 549 1 Fragments of lower ischial arch, porous, and encrusted with stalagmite ; same situa- 
tion with the foregoing. These were associated with a right astragal, No. 545, of 
bear and bits of charcoal. 
556 1 Metacarpal, encrusted with calcareous deposit, from a crevice. 
559 1 Penultimate phalanx, black and dendritic; situation uncertain, possibly from crevice 
in wall. 
560 1 Right astragal, black and dendritic ; situation uncertain, possibly from crevice in west 
wall. 
562, 563 2 Splinters of long bones, black and dendritic, from a crevice in west wall, on a level 
with the lower horizon of No.2. 
567 1 Fragment of a metacarpal or metatarsal (crevice), black and dendritic. 
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