conclusion that the two sets of implements represent two distinct social states, of which the ruder is by far the most ancient."[1]
We have, in the caves of France, evidence of the successive layers of civilisation, one superposed on the other, down to the reindeer hunter, who ate horses, represented by the cave-earth man of Kent's Hole; and in this latter we have this same man superposed on the traces of the still earlier man of the river-drift. To make all plainer, I will add here a summary of the deposits.
Neolithic | Modern, Roman, etc. | Fauna, as at present. | ||
Iron Age, Celtic, bronze ornaments. | ||||
Bronze weapons, Ivernian, flint tools. | ||||
Flint and pottery. | ||||
Palaeolithic | Flint and bone tools, cavemen. | Hyena, cave-bear, reindeer, mammoth | ||
Rudest flint tools, river-drift men. |
There are remains of a cliff castle at Long Quarry Point; from its name one may conjecture that a church stood in Celtic times on Kilmarie. Almost certainly this was a cliff castle, but the traces have disappeared.
The old church of Tor Mohun is dedicated to S. Petrock, as is shown by a Bartlett will in Somerset House, in 1517. Tor Abbey has been crowded into a narrow space by encroaching buildings. Cocking-
- ↑ Boyd Dawkins, Early Man in Britain, 1880, p. 197.