On an Ossiferous Cavern of Pleistocene Age at Hoe-Grange Quarry, Longcliffe, near Brassington (Derbyshire)

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I. I ntroduction . I n April 1902, the south-south-eastern end of a cavern in the Hoe-Grange Quarry was broken into, in the course of the quarrying operations (P1. VI). The discovery was first made known to us by Mr. J. Ward, Curator of the Cardiff Museum, who was formerly a resident in Derby, and has worked out several caverns in the neighbourhood. One of us visited the quarry on April 26th, 1902, and subsequently, through Messrs. Holland & Rigby, solicitors (of Ashbourne), obtained leave from Major Nicholson, the owner of the quarry, to work the deposits on behalf of the Derbyshire Archæological & Natural History Natural History Society. The owner stipulated that the cavern should be worked in such a manner as would secure the largest amount of evidence possible under the circumstances. In company with Mr. C. Fox-Strangways we visited the quarry, and found that the cavern had been indiscriminately worked in the upper part, above the line AB in the horizontal section (Pl. V, fig. 1), for a distance of 34 feet north-north-west of the point where the quarrymen had first broken in at the south-south-eastern end. Our thanks are due to Messrs. Shaw&Lovegrove, the lessees of the quarry, who did their best, before we took the work over, to secure and retain, as far as they could under the circumstances, specimens which had been obtained. By this means they supplied us with 1577 specimens, and we subsequently recovered other 679 specimens from the tip-heaps. Some of these were obtained

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