168 PLEISTOCENE DEPOSITS OF DERBYSHIRE. 
(C.) Clayey debris forming the summit, without bones, and 
probably rubbish piled up when the quarry close by 
was worked at that level. ... ae ar +. SeCIeee 
(B.) Yellow clay, with large blocks of limestone, fragments 
of Voredale shale washed down from the adjoining 
heights of Mam Tor, bits of elastic bitumen, or 
elaterite, and of fluor spar, derived from the deposits 
of those minerals close by, together with bones of 
bison, reindeer, wolf, fox, and grisly bear ... Reriaas > 
(A.) Below this a stiff, yellow loam, without any fossil 
remains, rested on the surface of the limestone.* ... 4 5, 
This deposit was probably subsequent to that of Creswell, as 
no remains of the mammoth or woolly rhinoceros were found, 
and must, therefore, be referred to the late Pleistocene Age. 
With the rival claims for the priority of this important dis- 
covery I have nothing to do. It is alleged that it was made by 
Mr. Rooke Pennington in 1870. If so, it is a great misfortune 
for science that he was unable to work it out before 1874, since 
considerable depredations were committed by farmers and 
quarrymen—by the former, who are stated to have carted the 
bones away for manure, and by the latter, some of whom 
informed me they had been in the habit for years of carrying 
them home for the ‘“‘owd ’oman to sell ta’te ragman for a pint 
o’ beer.” It is to be regretted that the peculiar nature of, and 
interest attached to, these bones were not more fully realised by 
these people. Whether they were merely duplicates. of the 
remains of similar animals to those subsequently discovered, or 
whether they might have added considerable and important species 
to the Fauna of Windy Knoll, is a problem that can never be 
satisfactorily solved now. 
The first intimation the public received of this find was in a 
paper read on April 28th, 1874, before that remarkably intelligent 
and impartial Society, locally known as the Manchester Geological 
Society, by my friend Mr. John Plant, F.G.S., curator of the 
* « Quart. Jour. Geo. Socy.,” Vol. 33, No. 132, page 725. 
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