﻿Vol. 6 1.] THE OSSIFEROUS CAVERN AT LONGCLIFFE. 43 



6. On an Ossiferous Cavern of Pleistocene Age at Hoe-Grange 

 Quarry, Longcxiffe, near Brassington (Derbyshire). By 

 Henry Howe Arnold-Bemrose, J.P., M.A., P.G.S., and Edwin 

 Tulley Newton, F.K.S., V.P.G.S. (Read November 23rd, 

 1904.) 



[Plates V-VIIL] 



Contents. 



Page 



I. Introduction 43 



II. The present Physical Conditions of the District, and a 



Description of the Quarry , = 44 



III. The Method of Working the Deposits, and the Results 



obtained 45 



IV. Description of the Mammalian and other Remains 48 



V. Tabulation of the Specimens 59 



VI. Conclusion 61 



I. Introduction. 



In April 1902, the south-south-eastern end of a cavern in the Hoe- 

 Grange Quarry was broken into, in the course of the quarrying- 

 operations (PI. VI). The discovery was first made known to us by 

 Mr. J. Ward, Curator of the Cardiff Museum, who was formerly 

 a resident in Derby, and has worked out several caverns in the 

 neighbourhood. One of us visited the quarry on April 26th, 1902, 

 and subsequently, through Messrs. Holland & Rigby, solicitors (of 

 Ashbourne), obtained leave from Major Nicholson, the owner of the 

 quarry, to work the deposits on behalf of the Derbyshire Archaeological 

 & Natural History Society. The owner stipulated that the cavern 

 should be worked in such a manner as would secure the largest 

 amount of evidence possible under the circumstances. In company 

 with Mr. C. Fox-Strangways we visited the quarry, and found that 

 the cavern had been indiscriminately worked in the upper part, above 

 the line AB in the horizontal section (PL Y, fig. 1), for a distance 

 of 34 feet north-north-west of the point where the quarrymen had 

 first broken in at the south-south-eastern end. Our thanks are due 

 to Messrs. Shaw & Lovegrove, the lessees of the quarry, who did 

 their best, before we took the work over, to secure and retain, 

 as far as they could under the circumstances, specimens which had 

 been obtained. By this means they supplied us with 1577 spe- 

 cimens, and we subsequently recovered other 679 specimens from 

 the tip-heaps. Some of these were obtained by sifting the deposit 

 in water ; others were picked out by the quarrymen. All these 

 specimens have been labelled ' General,' because they were obtained 

 previous to the time when we worked the cavern systematically 

 (Table I, col. G, p. 58). 



As soon as the discovery became known, the locality was visited 

 by numerous ardent collectors, some of whom came even at night- 

 time; and many specimens were taken away, despite the efforts made 



