By llie late EDWARD WILSON, F.G.S., and 
8. H. REYNOLDS, M.A., E.G.S. 
THE Uphill Bone-caves are met with in the western ex- 
tremity of Bleaclon Hill, which forms a continuation 
of the Mendip range. 
The occurrence of bone caves in this hill has been known 
for a very long period. At the village of Hutton, which lies east 
of Uphill, but on the same ridge of limestone, caves have been 
known for a much longer period than at Uphill itself. Thus 
in Phelps' History of Somersetshire, pubUshed in 183(5, it is 
stated (p. 18) that the Rev. Mr. Calcott, writing in 1759, says 
that workmen engaged at ochre pits at Hutton in the middle 
of the previous century, came upon a fissure in the hmestone 
which opened into a cave twenty feet square and four high, 
containing many bones, including those of elephant, horse 
and wolf. Thus there is evidence of bone-caves being known 
in the Uphill neighbourhood as early as the middle of the 
seventeenth century. It is however with the caves or fissures 
at Uphill itself that this paper deals. These are situated in 
a large quarry in the Carboniferous limestone lying just east of 
the mouth of the Axe and a short distance west of the old parish 
church of Uphill which in former times was an important 
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