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BONES IN GLAMORGANSHIRE. 
by walls carefully erected round all the open chasms, with which there 
also the same rocks are intersected *. 
In speaking of the bones at Oreston in my former paper on Kirk- 
dale, I had expressed a decided opinion that the caverns in which they 
occur must have had some communication with the surface through 
which the bones may have been introduced; and as Mr. Whidby has 
since found reason to adopt the same opinion in his further account of 
this third discovery to the Boyal Society, accompanied by plans and 
sections of the caves, and Mr. Clift has laid before the same society an 
anatomical description of the bones, with beautiful drawings, all of 
which will in the Phil. Trans, for 1823, I shall conclude this part 
of my subject with referring my readers to these memoirs for further 
particulars. 
6.—CAVE OF CRAWLEY ROCKS, NEAR SWANSEA. 
The sixth deposit of bones which has come to my knowledge was 
in the parish of Nicholas ton, on the coast of Glamorganshire, at a 
spot called Crawley Hocks, in Oxwich Bay, about twelve miles S.W. 
of Swansea; it was discovered in the year 1792, in a quarry of lime¬ 
stone, on the property of T. M. Talbot, Esq. of Penrice Castle, and 
no account of it has, I believe, been ever published; some of the bones 
* In Sir John Nieholl’s park at Merthyr Mawr there are many such apertures thus 
walled round; and in mining countries we know that animals are perpetually being lost 
by falling into old shafts that are not sufficiently fenced round to keep them off. 
