BRITAIN

Ken's hole, a cavern near Torquay, Devonshire, England, shows evidence it was home to early hunters. Examinations of the bones there suggest these people must have been successful at hunting mammoths and other now extinct animals.

Loch Maree and Victoria Falls, in Scotland,

In June 1880, a reporter for the Inverness Courier Walter Carruthers was in holidays near Loch Maree and Victoria Falls, in Scotland, and, being a rock hunter explored the geology of the area.

Between 300 and 400 yards above Victoria Falls, and beside the last of the three lesser falls on the West Side of the stream, Carruthers noticed peculiar impressions in the rock.

The rock was a surface of Torridon Red Sandstone.

The impressions consisted of two continuous flat bands side by side, between 1 1/4 and 1 1/2 inches wide and about 1/4 inch deep, running straight through the flat layers of sandstone, and perfectly distinct for 16 feet.

A few weeks later the curious "bands" were observed by a colleague of Carruthers, Mr. William Jolly (Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools for the region).

Jolly noted :

"The double band resembles the hollow impression that would be left by double bars of iron placed closely together."

Jolly's observation was corroborated when micro-specks of iron oxide were taken from the impression cavities.

Jolly found other band impressions in the same locality: There is a third band that runs alongside the other two, but is much less distinct and is not continuous.

All the bands were very uniform in width and thickness, with squared edges.

The sandstone in which the bands occur is Cambrian, 600 million years old.

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