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Fig. 413f.—Robin Hood Cave. 1/1

The fauna comprised cave-lion, hyæna, bear, Irish elk, woolly rhinoceros, and mammoth. A fine upper canine of Machairodus was also found. Most of the objects described are now in the British Museum. We have here another instance of quartzite implements of Palæolithic type, being found well to the north of the area in which drift-implements are usually discovered.

The relics found in the Victoria Cave^[1] at Settle belong to a later period than that of which I am treating.

A cave at Ballynamintra,^[2] Co. Waterford, is Neolithic.

Fig. 413g.—Church Hole Cave. 1/1

The Mentone caves would open so large a field for discussion that I content myself with a passing reference to them.

Fig. 413h.—Church Hole Cave. 1/1

Were no other evidence forthcoming, the results of an examination of the British caves already described would justify us in concluding that in this country man co-existed with a number of the larger mammals now for the most part absolutely extinct, while others have long since disappeared from this portion of the globe. The association, under slightly differing circumstances,

1. Jour. Anth. Inst., vol. iii. pp. 392, 516. B. A. Rep., 1874-5. Miall's "Geol., &c., of Craven," 1878, p. 25. J. Geikie's "Preh. Europe," p. 97. Dawkin's "Cave-hunting," p. 81.
2. Tr. Derb. A. and N. H. Soc., N. S., vol. i. p. 177.