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UPHILL-BONE CAVES. 
The Rev. Mr. Williams considered that the cave afforded 
evidence of three periods of time : — 
1. The material in the upper cave or hyaena den included 
no sand, and was deposited by the Mosaic deluge. 
2. The sand which occupied the floor of the lower cave was 
washed in during a subsequent period when the Glastonbury 
flats were below sea level. 
3. The mud covering the sand was washed in by a sub- 
sequent violent irruption of the sea. 
Little notice seems to have been taken of the Uphill caves 
from the period of the publication of Phelps' History of Somer- 
setshire in 183() till the sixties. In the Geologist, vol. vii. 
1863, p. 331, there is, however, a letter from Mr. C. Pooley, of 
Weston, dated August 25, 1863. He stated that another cave 
had recently been opened at Uphill, its entrance being on the 
south side of the rock at an elevation of about sixty feet from 
the base. Besides the usual stalagmitic breccia it was partly 
filled with an unctuous loam which was very rich in animal 
remains. Mr. Pooley obtained bones of wolf, fox, wild boar 
and otter, also the antler of a stag, and associated with them 
remains of man including a thigh bone, and part of the skull 
of an adult with the teeth in place. Mr. Pooley states that 
he was informed that several crania had been exhumed, but 
that in consequence of there being no local museum in which 
to deposit them they had been removed to Oxford. No trace 
of extinct animals had been met with. 
It is clear that the cave to which Mr. Pooley refers is not 
one of those described in Butter's or Phelps' books, for the 
upper cave described by them was clearly a hyaena den, con- 
taining no human remains, while their lower and principal 
cave lay practically at the base of the cliff, while Mr. Pooley's 
cave lay sixty feet above the base. Mr. Pooley gives no infor- 
mation as to the size of the cave which he describes, and in all 
