164 HUMAN REMAINS IN CAVES OF ENGLAND ALL POSTDILUVIAN. 
HUMAN REMAINS IN CAVES. 
It was mentioned, when speaking of Gailenreuth and Zahnloch, 
that human remains and urns have been discovered there in the same 
cave with the bones of antediluvian animals, but that they are of com¬ 
paratively low antiquity. 
Six analogous cases have been noticed in this country in cavities 
of mountain limestone, in the counties of Somerset, Glamorgan, Caer- 
marthen, and York; and these also are attended by circumstances 
which indicate them to be of postdiluvian origin. 
1. The discovery of human bones incrusted with stalactite, in a 
cave of mountain limestone at Burringdon, in the Mendip-hills, and 
mentioned in Collinson’s History of Somerset, is explained by this 
cave having either been used as a place of sepulture in early times, 
or been resorted to for refuge by wretches that perished in it, 
when the country was suffering under one of the numerous military 
operations, which, in different periods of our early history, have been 
conducted in that quarter. The mouth of this cave was nearly closed 
by stalactite, and many of the bones incrusted with it. In the 
instance of a skull, this substance had covered the inside as well as 
the outside of the bones; and I have a fragment from the inside, 
which bears in relief casts of the channel of the veins along the 
interior of the skull. The state of these bones affords indications of 
very high antiquity; but there is no reason for not considering them 
