The cave consists of three principal galleries, with diverging passages, running in the direction of the joints from north to south, and from east to west, communicating with the surface at four points. The following is the general section (Fig. 95) of the deposits in descending order. (A.) On the floor was a layer of stalagmite, varying from a few inches to upwards of a foot in thickness, and containing only twenty-five bones, among which were the humerus of a bear, and the antler of a reindeer. [Illustration: FIG. 95.--Diagram of Deposits in Brixham Cave. (Pengelly.)] (B.) Reddish cave-earth with fragments and blocks of limestone, and of stalagmite, generally averaging from two to four feet. In it 1,102 bones were discovered irregularly scattered through its mass, and belonging to mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, lion, cave, grizzly, and brown bears, reindeer, and others. They varied in state of preservation, and some were scored and marked by teeth. Associated with these, thirty-six rude flint implements were met with, of indisputable human workmanship, and of the same general order as those figured by the Rev. J. MacEnery from Kent’s Hole. Among them was one lanceolate implement with rounded point and unworked butt end, considered by Mr. John Evans, F.R.S., of the type of those usually found in the valley gravels.[205] There was, therefore, the most conclusive evidence that man inhabited the neighbourhood, either before or during the time of the accumulation of B, and before those physical changes took place by which the red silt ceased to be deposited, or the stalagmite above began to be formed. (C.) At the bottom of the cave-earth was a deposit of gravel, principally of rounded pebbles and devoid of fossils. The early history of the cave, as shown by these deposits, is given by Mr. Prestwich, in the report presented to the Royal Society, as follows:--