Kent's Cavern

Kent's Cavern

also called  Kent's Hole,  

      large limestone cave near Torquay, Devonshire, Eng., that yielded some of the earliest evidence of human coexistence with extinct animals. The Reverend J. McEnery, who investigated the upper deposits (1825–29), was perhaps first to proclaim this fact. Excavations (1865–80) made by William Pengelly provided conclusive evidence. The deposit has been divided into six layers from top to bottom: Roman, Iron, and Bronze Age sherds; stalagmite with Neolithic pottery; black band of burned bones and ash; red cave earth; stalagmite floor; and bone and pebble breccia. The implements have been classified typologically into five stages: Acheulian, Mousterian, Middle Aurignacian, proto-Solutrian, and Magdalenian. The animals, apart from the bones of a cave bear in the lowest layer, appear to have come mainly from the red cave earth and are Late (Upper) Pleistocene. Species represented include mammoth, wooly rhinoceros, bison, reindeer, and giant deer (Megaceros). Human fragments have been found but have not yet been equated with the archaeological phases.

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