166 HUMAN BONES IN GLAMORGAN AND CAERMARTHENSHIRE. 
which must long ago have undermined and removed any diluvial 
deposits that may have originally been left in them. I could find no 
pebbles, nor traces of any other than the human bones, on the single 
spot I have just described; these are very old, but not antediluvian. 
In another cave on this same flank of the Mendips, at Compton 
Bishop, near Axbridge, Mr. Peter Fry, of Axbridge, discovered in 
the year 1820 a number of bones of foxes, all lying together in the 
same spot, and brought away 15 skulls. These also, like the remains 
of foxes in Duncombe Park and near Paviland, are of postdiluvian 
origin, and were probably derived from animals that retired to die 
there, as the antediluvian bears did in the caves of Germany. 
3. Mr. Dillwyn has observed two analogous cases in the mountain 
limestone of South-Wales; one of these was discovered, in 1805, 
near Swansea, in a quarry of limestone at the Mumbles, where the 
workmen cut across a wedge-shaped fissure, diminishing downwards, 
and filled with loose rubbish, composed of fragments of the adjacent 
limestone, mixed with mould. In this loose breccia lay, confusedly, 
a large number of human bones, that appear to be the remains of 
bodies thrown in after a battle, like those I have mentioned near 
Kirby Moorside in Yorkshire, with no indications of regular burial; 
they were about 30 feet below the present upper surface of the lime¬ 
stone rock. 
4. The other case occurred in 1810 at Llandebie, in Caermarthen- 
shire, where a square cave was suddenly broken into, in working 
a quarry of solid mountain limestone on the north border of the 
great coal basin. In this cave lay about a dozen human skeletons 
in two rows at right angles to each other. The passage leading to 
