AT WINDY KNOLL, CASTLETON, DERBYSHIRE. 



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Fig. 1. — East-and- West Section through Windy-Knoll Fissure. 

 (Scale 20 feet to 1 inch.) 



' Surface denuded away. 



Present surface. 



— y ? Cavern 



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The whole skeleton of a reindeer was to be seen in the upper part 

 of B ; but it was so fragile that it was impossible to preserve more 

 than a few insignificant fragments. 



Other remains had been scattered after the death of the animal to 

 which they had belonged, as, for example, a lower jaw of grisly bear 

 which rested side by side with two lower jaws of reiudeer. Very 

 many of them were crushed by the weight of some of the large blocks 

 of stone. One block of stalagmite measured 8x6x2 feet. 



As the work proceeded, the limestone floor began rapidly to descend 

 (fig. 2), and the ossiferous clay to thicken, until it reached a thick- 



Fig. 2. — North-and-South Section through Windy-Knoll Fissure. 

 (Scale 20 feet to 1 inch.) 



Q. J. G. S. No. 132. 



