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Fig. 1. — Hough Ground-plan of the Robin-Hood Cave, Creswell Crags. 

 (Scale 20 feet to 1 inch.) 



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The curved broken lines indicate the portion worked out. 



floor of the cave. We gradually worked forward into the cave, 

 carefully examining each stratum as it was removed. As in the 

 Pin-hole, so here there was a certain amount of dark surface-soil of 

 inconsiderable thickness, seldom, if ever, exceeding 5 or 6 inches, 

 and near the entrance not above 2 inches ; in this in different 

 parts of the cavern we found some broken fragments of Roman and 

 Mediaeval pottery, a human incisor, and some bones of recent animals 

 (sheep etc.). On the left-hand side of the cave, and extending a con- 

 siderable way across its mouth, there was a very hard limestone 

 breccia, varying in thickness from a few inches up to about 3 feet ; 

 beneath the breccia was a deposit of light-coloured cave-earth, more 

 or less sandy and very calcareous ; where the breccia attained its 

 greatest thickness the cave- earth was almost wanting, being only a 

 few inches thick at the side of the cave ; but further in, under the 

 thinner portions of the breccia, the cave-earth was fully 3 feet 

 thick ; the succeeding layer was of dark-red sand, very similar in 



