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4Sfrj)tialf (JBalJf, nc«iv Biuton. 



By John Ward, F.S.A. 



EVERAL short papers on the discoveries made in tliis 

 cave have been published in past volumes of this 

 Journal, but as yet no general description of the cave 

 itself. I have been asked by the Editor and several 

 other members of this Society to contribute a paper upon this 

 aspect of the subject. This I do with the greatest pleasure ; 

 but let me say at the outset that, not having been engaged in 

 any actual work in the cave, I am not able to write upon it 

 with that degree of certitude and minuteness with which I 

 drew up my Rains Cave reports. I have frequently visited 

 the spot and explored the interior of the cave — that is as far as 

 I cared to go ; and have been in constant communication, per- 

 sonally and by letter, with Mr. Micah Salt and Mr. Millet, 

 junior (both of Buxton), who have under many difficulties 

 disinterred so fine and valuable a collection of relics of 

 the past. I am greatly indebted to them for the help they 

 have afforded me in drawing up this paper, and, indeed, they 

 well deserve the best thanks of the Society for the care with 

 which they have conducted their work, and their unselfish com- 

 municativeness, by which the interesting results of that work have 

 become the property of the community. 



The dale — Deepdale — in which this cave is situated, is one of 

 several which have their source in the high land south of Buxton, 

 and which, after a more or less northerly course, debouch into 



