Just as they afforded shelter to the cave-bear and the hyæna in the Pleistocene age, so in the Prehistoric period did they to the wolf and the bear, and in modern times to the fox and the badger. The results of their exploration,[1] so far as they relate to the early history of mankind, may be conveniently laid before the reader by the light of the newest discoveries, made by the Rev. J. Magens Mello[2] and myself in a group of caverns on the north-east border of Derbyshire, at Cresswell Crags, about five miles to the south-west of Worksop.
Fig. 40.—View of Cresswell Crags, looking east.
The Caves of Cresswell Crags.
The low range of hills, passing from Yorkshire southwards into Leicestershire, composed of magnesian limestone, is traversed here and there by ravines, among which that known as Cresswell Crags (Fig. 40) is one of
- ↑ The history of the exploration of caves is treated in my work on Cave-hunting, 8vo, 1875.
- ↑ Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. Lond. xxxi. p. 679; xxxii. p. 240; xxxiii. p. 579; xxxv. June 1879.
