210 The Rev. Mr Buckland's account of Fossil Teeth and 
the village of Hutton, near Banwell, at an elevation of from 
three hundred to four hundred feet above the level of the sea : 
they are now abandoned. 
“ The ochre was pursued through fissures in the mountain 
lime-stone, occasionally expanding into larger cavernous 
chambers, their range being in a steep descent, and almost 
perpendicular. Thus, in opening the pits, the workmen, after 
removing eighteen inches of vegetable mould, and four feet 
of rubbly ochre, came to a fissure in the lime-stone rock, about 
eighteen inches broad, and four feet long. This was filled 
with good ochre, but as yet no bones were discovered ; it 
continued to the depth of eight yards, and then opened into 
a cavern about twenty feet square, and four high ; the floor 
of this cave consisted of good ochre, strewed on the surface 
of which were multitudes of white bones, which were also 
found dispersed through the interior of the ochreous mass. 
In the centre of this chamber, a large stalactite depended from 
the roof ; and beneath, a similar mass rose from the floor, 
almost touching it : in one of the side walls was an opening 
about three feet square, which conducted through a passage 
eighteen yards in length, to a second cavern, ten yards in 
length, and five in breadth, both the passage and cavern being 
filled with ochre and bones ; another passage, about six feet 
square, branched off laterally from this chamber about four 
yards below its entrance ; this continued nearly on the same 
level for eighteen yards ; it was filled with rubbly ochre, frag- 
ments of lime-stone rounded by attrition, and lead ore con- 
fusedly mixed together ; many large bones occurring in the 
mass ; among which four magnificent teeth of an elephant 
(the whole number belonging to a single skull) were found j 
another shaft was sunk from the surface perpendicularly into 
