three hippopotami had fallen victims to the hyænas, as well as several rhinoceroses of the small-nosed or leptorhine species of Owen. The last two animals are new to the district. No implements were found at this horizon, and there is therefore no proof that the Palæolithic hunter was a contemporary of these two animals in the district. Nor have the reindeer, the woolly rhinoceros, and the mammoth, so abundant in the other caves of Cresswell Crags, left any trace of their having invaded the district at the time of its occupation by the leptorhine species and the hippopotamus.[1]
This Fauna present in Caves of Yorkshire.
The same animals as those of the lower strata in Mother Grundy's Parlour have been found in several caverns in the north of England, in the hyæna den at Kirkdale, explored in 1822, as well as in the Victoria Cave near Settle, and the Raygill Cave near Skipton. In these the hippopotamus occurs along with hyaena and the straight-tusked elephant (E. antiquus), and in the two first also in association with the leptorhine rhinoceros and the reindeer. In none is there any trace of Palæolithic man.[2]
- ↑ For the details of this discovery, see Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. Lond. xxxv., June 1879.
- ↑ The occurrence of Palæolithic man in the Victoria Cave, considered by Mr. Tiddeman to be pre- or inter-glacial, is founded on a misapprehension. The bone supposed to be human turns out to belong to a bear, and the cut bone said to have been found in an undisturbed layer in association with the extinct mammals, has probably been cut with an edge of metal, and belongs to a domestic sheep or goat, animals as yet unknown in Europe before the Neolithic age. It is also identical in its recent condition with numerous other bones of the same species cut in
