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The first thought that may enter the mind of a casual observer 
is the probability of the water, after entering the disturbed ground 
of the fault, following its south end, along the dip of the strata 
and slope of the hill, and finding its way out at the surface 
somewhere near East Cranmore. But, natural laws must be 
obeyed, water will gravitate to the lowest level. The fault dies out 
at the surface at East Cranmore, but sinks down through Mendip 
8 to 10,000 feet, the water follows the disturbance until it reaches 
the chasms and caverns on the limestone of the north anticlinal. 
Now we have to consider whether the disturbances in the 
limestone is capable of providing a conduit. Mendip may be 
said to be full of such instances. The so called bottomless well 
in the garden of the Bishop’s Palace, Wells, which supplies the 
moat with water, has been traced to the Mendip hills where the 
water dives underground atthe junction of the lower limestone 
shales with the Scar limestone. Another instance is that of the 
water sinking into swallow holes at Priddy appearing again at 
Cheddar a distance of three and a half miles. There can be no 
doubt whatever that the caverns are large and continuous along 
the line of fault as it traverses the limestone. The thickness of 
that formation amounts to 2,500 feet of clean rock free from any 
layer of sand, marl clay or any substance likely to obstruct the 
passage of water. 
We have traced the Clandown fault to the pit which gives it 
the name where the downthrow west is 720 feet after this it 
reduces very much, and at Lower Conygre pit finally ceases at a 
downthrow of 120 feet, by connection with the Clutton Union 
fault. 
This fault takes an E.E. by N. direction from Clutton Union, 
_ passes 8. of High Littleton and Timsbury in a straight direction 
to the edge of the Radstock series at Dunkerton. A mile and 
half to the north is another arterial fault ; starting from Fry’s 
Bottom Colliery, Clutton, it passes Farmborough (from which it 
takes its name), half a mile to the south, converging towards the 
