FOUND AT BURRINGDON AND WOKEY HOLE. 165 
postdiluvian. Mr. Skinner, on examination of this cave, found the 
bones disposed chiefly in a recess on one side, as in a sepulchral cata¬ 
comb ; and in the same neighbourhood, at Wellow, there is a large 
artificial catacomb of high antiquity, covered by a barrow, and con¬ 
structed after the manner of that at New Grange, near Slane, in the 
county of Meath, of stones successively overlapping each other till 
they meet in the roof. In this were found the remains of many 
human bodies. A description of it may be seen in the Archaeologia 
for 1820. 
2. Mr. Miller, of Bristol, has lately discovered the remains of human 
bodies in the much frequented cave of Wokey Hole, near Wells, at 
the south-west base of the Mendips. On hearing of the fact in 
January 1823,1 went the next day to examine it, and found the bones 
to be placed in the most secluded and distant part of a large fissure 
that shoots off 1 laterally from this cave, and is separated from its main 
chambers by a subterraneous river of considerable size, that constantly 
runs through them. They have been broken by repeated digging to 
small pieces; but the presence of numerous teeth establishes the 
fact that they are human. These teeth and fragments are dispersed 
through reddish mud and clay, and some of them united with it by 
stalagmite into a firm osseous breccia. Among the loose bones I 
found a small piece of a coarse sepulchral urn. The spot on which 
they lie is within reach of the highest floods of the adjacent river, 
and the mud in which they are buried is evidently fluviatile, and not 
diluvian; so also is great part, if not the whole, of the mud and 
sand in the adjacent large caverns, the bottoms of all which are filled 
with water to the height of many feet, by occasional land-floods, 
