184 Rev. Mr. Buckland’s Account of Fossil Teethand [Serr. 
there appeared a large deep opening, tending perpendicularly 
downwards, filled with the same congeries of rubble, ochre, 
bones, &c.; this was cleared to the depth of five yards; this 
point, being the deepest part of the workings, was estimated at 
about 36 yards beneath the surface of the hill; a few yards to 
the west of this another similar hole occurred, in which was 
found a large head, which we shall have occasion presently to 
notice.” 
The bones from this cavern, preserved in Mr. Catcott’s cabinet 
in the Bristol library, are the teeth and fragments of some bones 
of the elephant; and similar remains of horses, oxen, and two 
species of stag, besides the skeleton, nearly complete, of a fox. 
There are also molar teeth of the hog, and a large tusk of the 
upperjaw. This tusk probably belonged to the head mentioned 
in his MS. as having been found in the pit above described, and 
of which the following particulars are specified :—‘ The head 
was stated by the workmen to have been about three or four feet 
lorg, 14 inches broad at the top, or head part, and three inches 
at the snout. It had all the teeth perfect, and four tusks, the 
larger tusks about four inches long out of the head, and the 
lesser about three inches.”* The tusk now preserved is about 
three inches long, its enamel is fine, it is longitudinally striated, 
and on one side of the apex truncated and worn flat by use. 
On the summit of Sandford Hill, on the east of Hutton, bones 
of the elephant were also, according to Mr. Catcott’s MSS. dis- 
covered four fathoms deep among loose rubble. Some further 
detail of the bones found in the cave at Hutton are given as a 
note in Mr. Catcott’s Treatise on the Deluge (page 361, first 
edition), in which he specifies six molar teeth of the elephant, 
one of them lying in the jaw, part of a tusk, part of a head, four 
thigh bones, three ribs, with a multitude of lesser bones, belong- 
ing probably to the same animal. ‘ Besides these (he adds), we 
picked up part of a large deer’s horn very flat, and the slough of 
a horn (or the spongy porous substance that occupies the inside 
of the horns of oxen), of an extraordinary size, together with a 
great variety of teeth and small bones belonging to different 
species of land animals. The bones and teeth were extremely 
well preserved, all retaining their native whiteness, and, as they 
projected from the sides and top of the cavity, exhibited an 
appearance not unlike the inside of a charnel-house.” 
{t appears to me most probable from the description given of 
these bones and horns, that they were not all dragged in by 
beasts of prey, but some of them, at least, drifted in by water, 
and the presence of pebbles seems to add credibility to this 
conjecture. 
3. Another case of fossil fragments of bone has been disco- 
* The head here described is evidently that of a hog ; the account of its length being 
exaggerated by the workmen, from whose report alone Mr. Catcott gives the measures 
of it. The head itself was lost or destroyed before he had seen it. 
