CHAP. VII.] 



THE CAVES OF CBESSWELL CRAGS. 



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Just as they afforded shelter to the cave-bear and the 

 hysena 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 Eev. 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. 



The Caves of Cresswell Crags. 



The low range of hills, passing from Yorkshire south- 

 wards into Leicestershire, composed of magnesian lime- 



FIG. 40. View of Cresswell Crags, looking east. 



stone, is traversed here and there by ravines, among 

 which that known as Cresswell Crags (Fig. 40) is one of 



1 The history of the exploration of caves is treated in my work on 

 Cave-hunting, 8vo, 1875. 



2 Quart. Journ. Geol Soc. Lond. xxxi. p. 679 ; xxxii p. 240 ; xxxiii. 

 p. 579 ; xxxv. June 1879. 



