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Summary

Kent's cavern. Clinnick's gallery. Seven teeth of bear, one of fox, and thirteen lumps of coprolite were found in the discarded materials of the 1846 excavations. The cave earth yielded eight teeth of hyena, two of fox, bone, thirteen lumps of coprolite, and the following specimens of flint and chert:-.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1010745: Kent's Cavern, Torquay

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX96SW/4/35

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• CAVE DEPOSIT (Palaeolithic - 698000 BC to 8001 BC (Between))

Full description

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV316698.

Kent's cavern. Clinnick's gallery. Seven teeth of bear, one of fox, and thirteen lumps of coprolite were found in the discarded materials of the 1846 excavations. The cave earth yielded eight teeth of hyena, two of fox, bone, thirteen lumps of coprolite, and the following specimens of flint and chert:-a. A large chert implement. It had been broken by a workman's tool, and was found with a hyena's tooth in the first foot level. B. A small white flint flake. It was nearly flat on one face, but was strongly ridged near the margin on the other; it was blunt at the ends, but was reduced to a thin edge everywhere else. It was of semi-circular form, and was found in may 1874 in the first foot level. Numerous bones and 86 bear teeth were found in the breccia, along with the following skull and flint and chert specimens:-c. A large portion of a skull. It was found with bear teeth and some bones. D. A pinkish drab flake of chert. It was pentagonal in form, and an efficient scraper. It was found in the fourth foot level. E. A pinkish drab flake of chert. It had a bulb of percussion on its inner face, which was concave in both directions, while the outer face was convex and retained the original surface of the nodule on about one third of its length. It was unused. It was found with three bear teeth in april 1874 in the first foot level of breccia. F. An irregular pentagonal chert. It was nearly flat on one face which showed the bulb of percussion, and was convex on the other, whence several flakes had been dislodged leaving conchoidal facets. It had probably been reduced to a thin edge along each of its sides except one. It was well-used. It was found in may 1874 with bone fragments in the fourth foot level. G. A rough irregular flake. It was found with a bear tooth and fragments in the fourth foot level of the breccia in july 1874. H. A small chert implement, probably rolled. It was very convex on one face, slightly so on the other, and a portion of the original surface was retained near the butt end. It was rudely quadrilateral in form with the angles rounded off. Several flakes had been struck off each face. Its surface was covered with almost black, probably magnetic, smut. A slight chip showed it to consist of light coloured granular chert. Several lines, betokening planes, of structural weakness or perhaps of fracture, entirely surrounded it. It was found in a small recess in the wall just within the wider entrance of the gallery in the fourth foot level with a bear's tooth and bone fragments in april 1874. Mammal bones were found in and attached to the upper surface of the granular stalagmitic floor. In the breccia, three lions teeth in portions of a left lower jaw were found. Seven specimens of flint and chert were found during the resumed excavation. I. An irregular tongue-shaped tool. It was of a gamboge colour externally, reduced to an edge all round the circumference except at the butt end. It was slightly concave on the inner face, a bulb of percussion well developed near the butt end, and very convex on the outer face, whence several flakes and chips had been dislodged. It had been broken into three pieces by a workman. It was found in august 1874 in the third foot level of the breccia.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV316699.

Pengelly, w. /tda/16(1884)365-375,418/the literature of kent's cavern, part 5.

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Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

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