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called Holly Lane (Figs. 1, 2), discovered by Mr. G. E. Male, of 

 Clevedon, towards the close of the year 1905. Mr. Male worked at it 

 for many weeks, and with his brother, Dr. H. C. Male, of Croydon, 

 collected hundreds of bones, though unfortunately considerable 

 numbers had been already thrown away. In the following year 

 Professor Sidney Reynolds also began to collect, and obtained about 

 500 more. Probably not less than 2,000 have been preserved. They 

 are now in the museums at Jermyn Street (London), Bristol, and 

 Taunton, and in Dr. Male's collection. The vertebrates were named 

 by Mr. E. T. Newton, Professor Reynolds, and Mr. Martin Hinton 

 (with notes by Mr. S. G. Shattock, of the Royal College of Surgeons, 

 and by Professor Sir W. Boyd Dawkins), and the gasteropods by 

 Mr. E, T. Newton, the shells having lately been re-examined and 

 the list revised by Mr. A. S. Kennard. 



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Fig. 1. — Contoured map of Clevedon. Scale 1"12 inch = 1 mile. HLQ = Holly 

 Lane Quarry. EGG = East Clevedon Gap. DH = Dial Hill. Cas = 

 Walton Castle. CQ = Conygar Quarry. ^^— = Alluvium. Heights 

 in feet. 



In the present paper we are concerned with the cave only in so far 

 as its contents form a part of the accumulations which are found 

 outside, and which buried it altogether. My own acquaintance with 

 the Holly Lane section began in the late autumn of 1916, when I was 

 taken to see it by Mr. G. E. Male, and we discussed the curious 

 questions presented by it. To account for the phenomena by the 

 action of water seemed to me impossible. It occurred to me, however, 

 that the deposits had certain characters which recalled the 

 descriptions which have been given of the Loess by Richthofen and 

 others, and I suggested to him that a solution of the problem might 

 perhaps be found in seolian action. Durmg the succeeding three 

 years I made further investigations, which brought out more seolian 

 and loess-like features than might have been expected. 



