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visited the cavern, which had been long known and was the scene of many 
a legend since the Roman period. That it was known to the Romans 
might be inferred from the statement that a ‘pig’ of Roman lead had 
been found in the antrum, (a fact, by-the-by, of which he, the Secretary, 
should like to obtain good evidence of its credibility). So far as any 
remains were concerned, the cavern had only contributed some pottery and 
a few bones of no remarkableinterest. But, on the other hand, the hyzena- 
den on the opposite side had only recently been discovered and was of 
much more importance. Some workmen of Mr. Hodgkinson, whilst cutting 
a canal to convey the water to his paper mills below, had, about the year 
1850, accidentaliy broken into the entrance of the den. And it was due to 
the cave-hunting propensities of his friend, Mr. Boyd Dawkins, that this 
remarkable den, with its large assemblage of bones of the extinct mammalia, 
associated with the evidence of man’s handiwork in chert and flint weapons, 
had been made known to the public in the Journal of the Geological Society 
for 1862. Having described the position of the bones and the flint imple- 
ments, how the former, from their gnawed appearance and other indications, 
must have been introduced into the cave by the hyzena, and had probably 
remained there undisturbed by the hand of man until the present day, he 
gave a slight sketch of the configuration of the country when the horse and 
the rhinoceros roamed on the plain below, and herds of Cervide 
frequented the wooded slopes ; and after that period the great changes 
which had taken place before the den assumed its present appearance, and 
had sealed up within it those evidences of a life that had now passed away. 
After these remarks the members proceeded to inspect the den, 
and found several pieces of bone from the débris left by the former 
explorers. Having thanked Mr. Hodgkinson for his kindness, they 
walked thence to the Ebbor rocks, and ascended the Lion rock ; 
whence a magnificent view is obtainable, somewhat spoilt, how- 
ever, by the usual mist which seems to love the neighbouring city 
of Wells ; looked at the shallow “scroping” for hematite iron ore 
in the Lower Limestone shales, and waded through the wet grass up 
a picturesque wooded hollow, until a heap of débris from an old 
coal sinking attracted their attention. Hammers were plied, and 
revealed the fact that the sandstone blocks on the “tip” were 
Millstone grit ; a rather remarkable fact in the puzzling geology 
of these interesting hills, indicating great disturbance and an 
