| RefNo | MS/222/25 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Twentieth report of progress of excavations by William Pengelly and Edward Vivian, Torquay, to the British Association Kent's Cavern Committee |
| Creator | Pengelly; William (1812-1894); geologist |
| Vivian; Edward (1808–1893); science writer; poet |
| Date | 4 February 1867 |
| Description | Monthly report of the superintendents of exploration. Excavations have entered ground broken up by previous explorers. During the past month they found 165 flint flakes and chips - 130 of which were found in the black band below the stalagmite. The black band also yielded a considerable number of bones, some of which were split longitudinally. Finds have included the heel-bone of a man (according to Mr [William Henry] Corfield, the geological scholar of Burdett-Coutts), and a bone fashioned into the shape of a '"harpoon"'. Comparisons are made between Kent's Cavern finds and figures 'by Sir [John] Lubbock in his "Prehistoric Times", page 80'. In the stalagmitic floor, part of a human upper jaw was also found, with four teeth. The red-deposit yielded a bone pin - two crude drawings depict this. |
| Extent | 3p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA2162 | Pengelly; William (1812 - 1894); geologist | 1812 - 1894 |
| NA5949 | Lubbock; John (1834 - 1913); 1st Baron Avebury | 1834 - 1913 |