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Show STONE AGE MAN FOUND, "tj Cave Dweller Burled With Flint Knives for Spirit World. The skeleton of a cava dweller, who flourished somewhere botweeu the old stone age and thi new anywhere bo-tween bo-tween fifty and a hundred millions of years ago has Just been found In ono of the famous caves at Cheddar, says the London Express. Just within the ontranco of the cave owned by Mr. Cough thore existed until un-til a few days ago a low-vaulted pass-age, pass-age, which led toward a hole opening out Into a water-filled chamber. To dralntho further end of the cavo Mr. Gough had a trench cut to tho water hole, nnd In doing so two layers of stalagmite had to be cut through. Uetwcen them was cave earth, and In this earth was found the skeleton of a man of enormous antiquity which the stalagmite had kept In an almost perfect stato of preservation, The bones of tho leg exhibit the flattening characteristic of the men of this i emote period. Tho thick frontnl bone of the skull and the bony projections over tho eyo sockets nlso add their testimony, while measurements measure-ments mado by St. George Gray, tho well known paleontologist, give tho man's height as U feet l- Inches. IJcsldo tho skeleton were found, laid with great care near tho hands, a number of flint flakes and knives, Indicating In-dicating that tho mnn, probably a headman of his la, had been ceremoniously cere-moniously Interred nnd provided with all that ho would need In the spirit world. It Is probablo that great numbers of such Interments may bo unearthed In this famous stone age area, which embraces em-braces Cheddar, Workoy Hole, Ebbor and around Tor Hill all In the neighborhood neigh-borhood of tho grent spring at Wells, In the vicinity of which in the early days of the earth thera was a largo settlement of tho cavc-dwclllng hunting hunt-ing men. |