. The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London. nes shown are still in situ, and X marks the position in which the skull was found.] a = Recent accumulation of earth and stones : 6 inches. £»= Upper bed of stalagmite : here 5 inches thick. e = Cave-earth, with encrusted boulder (7/)and blocks of limestone and an intermediate band of calcareous deposit (e): 3=j — Lower bed of stalagmite: 6 inches.#=Bed of sand and pebbles of Carboniferous Limestone and Old Red Sandstone : 8 to 12 — Carboniferous-Limestone roof and floor. maintaining a certain parallelism with the floo
. The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London. nes shown are still in situ, and X marks the position in which the skull was found.] a = Recent accumulation of earth and stones : 6 inches. £»= Upper bed of stalagmite : here 5 inches thick. e = Cave-earth, with encrusted boulder (7/)and blocks of limestone and an intermediate band of calcareous deposit (e): 3=j — Lower bed of stalagmite: 6 inches.#=Bed of sand and pebbles of Carboniferous Limestone and Old Red Sandstone : 8 to 12 — Carboniferous-Limestone roof and floor. maintaining a certain parallelism with the floor and roof. A spaceonly just high enough to enable a man to crawl in, existed betweenthe upper surface of the drift and the roof at the entrance. About12 feet within the fissure a smaller rift in the right-hand wall was Vol. 60.] HUMAN REMAINS IX GOTJGhs CAVERN, CHEDDAR. 341 discovered (p, fig. 1, p. 335). It is very narrow above, but widensto 3 feet at the lower end. Fig. 5.— Transverse section through the lateral fissure g(in jig. 1, p. S3~>.). Scale^-- a — Recent accumulation of earth and stones : 6 inches. b = Upper stalagmite-bed : 5 to 14 inches. c = Cave-earth, containing blocks of limestone : 3^ feet. d — Lower (crystalline) stalagmite : 5 inches. e = Bed of sand and pebbles : 8 to 12 inches. X shows the position of the human skeleton : 1 = Skull; 2 = Pelvis ;3 = Femurs; 4 = Tibia ; 5 = Humerus. The skeleton was found at the junction of these two fissures. Thesurface-accumulation had been removed, the stalagmitic crust—hert •342 3IR. H. X. DAVIES OX THE DISCOVERY OP [Aug. 1904, 5 inches thick—had been cut through ; and a large quantity of cave-earth and great blocks of stone from the central part of the fissurehad been cleared away in making a deep trench for the drain-piping,when 2 feet below the under-surfaee of the stalagmite, the humanskull (PI. XXIX) was brought to light. It was taken out iu pieces,but so carefully that there was no difficulty
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