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CHAP. VII.]
PALÆOLITHIC MEN OF KENT'S HOLE.
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were much more rudely formed, more massive, less symmetrical in outline, and made by operating not on flakes but directly on nodules, of which portions of the original surface generally remained, and which were probably derived from supra-cretaceous gravels existing in great volume between Torquay, and Newton Abbot, about four miles from the cavern. It is obvious, however, that even such tools could not be made without the dislodgment of flakes and chips, some of which would be capable of being utilised, and accordingly a few remnants of this kind were met with in the breccia, but they were all of a very rude simple character, and do not appear to have been improved by being chipped."[1]

Fig. 62.—Oval Implement, Cave-earth, Kent's Hole, 1/2.

Above the breccia is the cave-earth, in which flint implements are by far more numerous and of a higher

  1. Journal of the Plymouth Institution, February 18, 1875, pp. 17, 18.