176 PLEISTOCENE DEPOSITS OF DERBYSHIRE. 
Although Chamber C was worked out to the extreme end, 
nothing more of additional interest was discovered.* 
In November, 1878, the cave called Mother Grundy’s Parlour 
was explored, under the supervision of Mr. Knight, of Owen’s 
College. It had previously been disturbed by a Creswell man, 
whose wife is said to have dreamt that treasure was hidden there. 
Below the surface soil was light red cave-earth, which contained 
the remains of bison, reindeer, bear, wolf, fox, and hyzna; also a 
few rudely chipped quartzite pebbles, and other Paleolithic 
implements. Beneath this were red clay and ferruginous sand, 
which overlay the lowest strata of white sand. In the ferruginous 
sand were found the remains of fauna hitherto undiscovered in 
these caves, namely, “fragments of the skull and other bones of 
hippopotamus, and teeth of rhinoceros leptorhinus of Owen, along 
with numerous skulls and jaws of hyena, and some remains of 
bison.” The hippopotamus skull was broken probably in the 
previous digging. The red clay was very stiff, and contained the 
remains of hyzena, bison, hippopotamus, and rznoceros leptorhinus. 
At the far end of the cave there were blocks of limestone in the 
clay, and bones of bison wedged in between them. It will thus 
be seen that in the red clay and ferruginous sand were found the 
hippopotamus and leptorhine rhinoceros, the hyzena and bison, 
but no trace of man, the reindeer, or horse. In the red sand 
above these were the mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, horse, reindeer, 
hyzena, and implements of Paleolithic man.t+ The importance 
of the discoveries at Creswell Caves can only be considered 
second in importance in England, and is due chiefly to the energy 
and enterprise of the Rev. J. M Mello. The annexed table will 
show them to have been the most fertile by far in the county :— 
* Quat. Geo. Jour. Soc., Vols. 31, 32, 333; Nos. 124, 127, 1313 pp. 679, 
240, and 579; and Heath’s Bone Caves of Creswell, and Creswell Caves, v. 
Prof. Boyd Dawkins. 
t+ Quat. Geo. Jour. Soc., Vol. 35 ; Nos. 140, 724. 
