consist exclusively of flakes, some of them well and symmetrically formed, and exhibiting on their edges the marks arising from use.
In some of the other caverns in the same district. Prof. Boyd Dawkins has also discovered flint flakes associated with the remains of a similar group of animals. The Oyle Cave,[1] Tenby, and Hoyle's Mouth,[2] have also afforded flint flakes associated with the remains of a nearly similar fauna.
In the Coygan Cave,[3] Carmarthenshire, Mr. Laws, of Tenby, found two flint flakes with remains of mammoth and rhinoceros below a foot of stalagmite. In the Ffynnon Beunos Cave,[4] Dr. H. Hicks, F.R.S., found several worked flints (one like Fig. 390) with bones of Pleistocene animals below a stalagmite breccia, and in the Cae Gwyn Cave[5] a long scraper with bones of rhinoceros. A flint flake[6] was found under Drift outside the covered entrance to the cave. Dr. Hicks regards these caves as Pre-Glacial, a view in which I cannot agree.
In the Pont Newydd Cave[7] near Cefn, Prof. T. McK. Hughes, F.R.S., found, with plentiful remains of the Pleistocene fauna, including Rhinoceros hemitœchus, a number of implements of distinctly palæolithic forms made of felstone and chert, as well as one of flint. This cave can be proved to be Post-Glacial.
Another cave which may be mentioned is that known as King Arthur's Cave, near Whitchurch, Ross, which was explored by the late Rev. W. S. Symonds, F.G.S., of Pendock.[8] In this instance flint flakes, and cores formed of chert were found in the cave-earth, with bones and teeth of the usual mammals, in one part of the cavern; while in another, beneath a thick layer of stalagmite, itself covered by what appeared to be a portion of an old river-bed, flint flakes were found associated with the same fauna. Mr. Symonds assigns these fluviatile deposits to an ancient river now represented by the Wye, which flows 300 feet below the level of the cave. If this view be correct, there can, as be observes, hardly be better authenticated evidence of the antiquity of man in the records of cave-history, than that afforded by
- ↑ Geologist, vol. vi. p. 47; v. 115.
- ↑ Geol. Mag., vol. ii. p. 471.
- ↑ Proc. Geol. Assoc., vol. ix. p. 9.
- ↑ Q.J.Q.S., vol. xlii. p. 9; xliii. p. 9. Proc. Geol. Assoc., vol. ix. p. 26.
- ↑ Q.J.G.S., vol. xliii. p. 112; xliv. 112. Proc. Geol. Assoc., vol. x. p. 14. Nature, vol. ix. p. 14. Brit. Assoc. Rep., 1886.
- ↑ Q.J.G.S., vol. xliv. p. 564.
- ↑ Q.J.G.S., vol. xliii. p. 116. Journ. Anth. Inst., vol. iii. p. 387. Q.J.G.S., vol. xxxii. p. 91. Dawkins, "Early Man in Brit.," p. 192.
- ↑ Geol. Mag., vol. viii. p. 433. Brit. Assoc. Report, 1871.
