The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London . et). By Arthur Smith Woodward,, , Pres. (Read March 11th, 1914.) Thirty-seyen years ago Prof. Boyd Dawkinsl described to theSociety the incised figure of a horse on a piece of hone found withPalaeolithic implements and remains of Pleistocene mammals inthe Robin Hood Cave, Creswell Crags. Until the present time,this has remained the sole example of the pictorial art of Paleo-lithic Man met with in Britain. It is, therefore, of interest torecord the discovery of a second specimen, which appears to datehack to the same pe
The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London . et). By Arthur Smith Woodward,, , Pres. (Read March 11th, 1914.) Thirty-seyen years ago Prof. Boyd Dawkinsl described to theSociety the incised figure of a horse on a piece of hone found withPalaeolithic implements and remains of Pleistocene mammals inthe Robin Hood Cave, Creswell Crags. Until the present time,this has remained the sole example of the pictorial art of Paleo-lithic Man met with in Britain. It is, therefore, of interest torecord the discovery of a second specimen, which appears to datehack to the same period, and is especially remarkable as beingalmost identical with the first, both in subject and in style. The new specimen was found by two bojs of Sherborne School,A. S. Cortesi and P. C. Grove, and was submitted to me byMr. K. Elliot Steel, to whom I am indebted for the opportunity of Incised drawing of the head and forequarters of a horse on afragment of rib, natural size; from a dry valley north ofSherborne (Dorset). In the Museum of Sherborne making this communication. It was picked up, with fragmentsof calcspar and miscellaneous Inferior Oolite fossils, in an old heapof quarry-debris near the Bristol road, on the outskirts of Sherborne(Dorset) ; and there can be no doubt that it was originally obtainedfrom one of the small dry valleys with steep sides which furrowthe dip-slope of the Inferior Oolite north of the town. A carefulconsideration of all the circumstances suggests that it may haveoccurred in a rock-shelter, which was destiwed b}^ quarrying : forthe heap of debris which yielded the specimen was most probablyderived from a sheltered spot with a south-western aspect, whichwould serve admirably for human habitation. Unfortunately, theonly noteworthy associated specimens are a few Hints, which arenot clearly chipped by man, although they must have been broughtfrom a distance of several miles. It may, however, be added thatat a spot a quarter of a mile farthe
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