Excerpt from Third Report on the Exploration at Dog Holes, Warton Crag, Lancs In the course of digging out the material from the slope several bones and teeth were met with, mostly belonging to oxen, sheep, and dog; also fragments of red Late Celtic pottery and part of an iron knife and iron key. It was anticipated that in this area the weights belonging to the fine pair of bronze balances found here in 1910 would be discovered, but no traces of these were met with. The material below and around the area occupied by the ...
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Excerpt from Third Report on the Exploration at Dog Holes, Warton Crag, Lancs In the course of digging out the material from the slope several bones and teeth were met with, mostly belonging to oxen, sheep, and dog; also fragments of red Late Celtic pottery and part of an iron knife and iron key. It was anticipated that in this area the weights belonging to the fine pair of bronze balances found here in 1910 would be discovered, but no traces of these were met with. The material below and around the area occupied by the large boulder was next excavated, and here again fragments of late-celtic ware were found along with patches of charcoal and various bones and jaws of ox, &c. Other objects found on this site included cockle shells, three iron fragments (one of which retains the impression of some textile material), iron nails, a strip of lead, a bone awl, two bone pins, a fragment of ornamented bronze, and the penial bone of a wolf. The charcoal was not in a definite layer, though it occupied the same position as the charcoal layer met with at this part of the cave during the 1909 excavations. The discovery, however, of the charcoal and other remains seems to suggest that the large limestone boulder fell from the roof at a later date than that of the occupation. Below this horizon, and well down into the Fissure immediately below, the material consisted chiefly of water-worn stones with very little clay, along with scanty remains of horse, ox, dog, and sheep; also fragments of a human skull. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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