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Abstract

A report on the continued excavation of Kent's Cavern, Torquay, presented at Aberdeen by a Research Committee of Section H (Anthropology) of the British Association, states that an area of 160 sq. ft. of floor space, one half of which is beneath the ‘Black Band’ Magdalenian hearth worked by W. Pengelly between 1865 and 1880, has been excavated, the greatest depth reached being 10 ft. 6 in. below the general floor and 16 ft. below the old stalagmite floor. Remains of large animals were found between large fallen blocks of limestone. The animals usually found in the cave were present in good number, including horse, rhinoceros, deer, Irish deer, bear, fox, ox, badger, pine-marten and mammoth. Among the more interesting finds were three foot bones of deer, tall articulating, three vertebrae of (—) rhinoceros in correct relation, a first phalanx of a human finger, 2 ft. below floor level, eight flint implements, a flint core, 3 in. by 2 in. by 2J in., at a depth of 13 ft. 6 in. below the original floor level, small tines of deer, probably used as borers, and a quartzite pounder.