Caves of the Mendip Hills then rising up a fracture in the rock. Few caves on the Mendip Hills are more than deep or a few kilometres in length, (with some notable exceptions, such as Swildon's Hole which is over long), but a number are complex with several levels of passages which have been abandoned by the water, for example those around Cheddar. The catchment area of the Cheddar Yeo, which rises in Gough's Cave, measures . Dye marking shows that some of the water travels underground for up to , taking up to 14 days to reach Cheddar. When Banwell Bone Cave was discovered
Buddhist caves in India would revive briefly in the 6th century CE, with the magnificent achievements of Ajanta and Ellora, before finally subsiding as Hinduism replaced Buddhism in the sub-continent, and stand-alone temples became more prevalent. The Ajanta Caves in Maharashtra, a World Heritage Site, are 30 rock-cut cave Buddhist temples carved into the sheer vertical side of a gorge near a waterfall-fed pool located in the hills of the Sahyadri mountains. Like all the locations of Buddhist caves, this one is located near main trade routes and spans six centuries beginning in the 2nd or 1st century B.C. A period of intense building