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Show STONE AGE MAN FOUND. H Cave Dweller Burled With Flint Knlvei for Spirit World. Tho skeleton of a cave dweller, who nourished somewhere between the old stone age and the new anywhere between be-tween fifty and a hundred millions of years ago has Just been found In one of the famous caes at Cheddar, says the I-ondon Express. Just within tho entrance of tho cave owned by Mr. Cough there existed until un-til a few days ago a low-vaulted pass, age, which led toward a holo opening out Into a water-filled chamber. To drain tho further end of tho cave Mr. Oough had a trench cut to the water hole, and In doing so two layers of stalagmite had to be cut through. Between them was cave earth, and In this earth was fomfcl the skeleton of a man of enormous antiquity whlcb the stalagmite hnd kept In an almost perfect state of preservation. The bones of tho leg exhibit tho flattening characteristic of the men of this remote period. The thici frontal bone of the skull and the bony projections oer the e)c Kockets also add their testimony, whllo measurements measure-ments made by St. George Gray, the well known paleontologist, give tho man's height as ft feet r Inches. Beside the skeleton wero found, laid with great caro near tho hands, a number of Mint Hakes nnd knles, Indicating In-dicating thnt the man, probably a headman of his day, had been cero-monlously cero-monlously Interred nnd proUded with all that ho would need In tho spirit world. It Is probable that gieat numbers of such interments may bo unearthed In this famous stone-age aren. which embraces em-braces Cheddar, Workey Hole, Ebbor and around Tor Hill all In the neighborhood neigh-borhood of tho great spring nt Wells, in the vicinity of which In the early days of tho earth thero was a largo settlement of tho cave-dwelling hunting hunt-ing men. |
