170 FOSSIL WORKS OF ART IN SOMERSETSHIRE. 



CHAPTER X. 



CAVERN DEPOSITS, AND PLACE OF SEPULTURE OF THE POST- 

 PLIOCENE PERIOD. 



FLINT IMPLEMENTS IN CAVE CONTAINING HYENA AND OTHER EXTINCT 



MAMMALIA IN SOMERSETSHIRE CAVES OF THE GOWER PENINSULA IN 



SOUTH WALES RHINOCEROS HEMITCECHUS OSSIFEROUS CAVES NEAR 



PALERMO SICILY ONCE PART OF AFRICA RISE OF BED OF THE 



MEDITERRANEAN TO THE HEIGHT OF THREE HUNDRED FEET IN THE 



HUMAN PERIOD IN SARDINIA BURIAL-PLACE OF POST-PLIOCEXE DATE 



OF AURIGNAC IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE RHINOCEROS TICHOBHINUS 



EATEN BY MAN M. LARTET ON EXTINCT MAMMALIA AND WORKS OF 



ART FOUND IN THE AURIGNAC CAVE RELATIVE ANTIQUITY OF THE 



SAME, CONSIDERED. 



Works of Art associated with extinct Mammalia in a 

 Cavern in Somersetshire. 



THE only British cave from which implements resembling 

 those of Amiens have been obtained, since the attention 

 of geologists has been awakened to the importance of minutely 

 observing the position of such relics relatively to the asso- 

 ciated fossil mammalia, is that recently opened near "Wells in 

 Somersetshire. It occurs near the cave of AVokey Hole, from 

 the mouth of which the river Axe issues on the southern 

 flanks of the Mendips. No one had suspected that on the left 

 side of the ravine, through which the river flows after escaping 

 from its subterranean channel, there were other caves and 

 fissures concealed beneath the greensward of the steep 

 sloping bank. About ten j^ears ago, a canal was made, 

 several hundred yards in length, for the purpose of leading 

 the waters of the Axe to a paj)er-mill, now occupying the 

 middle of the ravine. In carrying out this work, about 

 twelve feet of the left bank was cut away, and a cavernous 



