Author: Herbert E. Balch

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 9781230049878

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...in the story of the Cave is revealed to us in the picture of " The Goatherd." Near the doorway of the Cave on the right hand side was a fissure, and in._._Tum=d up and it were the remains of a comparatively recent interment--that is, it lay above some relics of the Romano-British occupation, and had been recently disturbed by burrowing animals. This is the only trace of anything of the kind throughout our work, and I do not believe that such an explanation will account for the distribution of the human bones in any other instances which have come under our observation. For instance, beyond our diggings, Fig. 24._Tress" Hair' one of time found with scattered among those large boulders WI"llCIl lie skeleton at Pflddy, showing style of hair-dressing. about to the right of the pathway Just before 5"" '"I)' " I-Iell Ladder " is reached, there were quite a number of scattered human bones. They were all much decayed and fragmentary, and comprised teeth as well as bones of old and young individuals. They were not nearly enough to represent the whole of the bones of any one person, and I am inclined to think that many must have entirely decomposed. This occurrence I attribute to what I have already suggested, the pursuit, even into the fastness of the Cave, by some closely following enemies, who caught and killed the Cave people as they made for the remoter recesses. They probably, or more correctly, possibly, belong to the time of the evacuation of the Cave, for similar remains accompanied Romano-British pottery in the Boulder Chamber just beyond the "Spur and Wedge" (Pl. XXVa). But when we come to the consideration of the larger quantity of human remains of the floor debris from the...