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FURTHER EXPLORATION IN THE DOWKERBOTTOM CAVES, IN 
CRAVEN. BY JAMES FARRER, ESQ., M.P., OF INGLEBOROUGH 
house; WITH REMARKS BY HENRY DENNY, A.L.S., &C 
Being desirous of making some further explorations in the 
Dowkerbottom Cave, or rather Caves — for, in its present 
state, it is divided into two chambers, one being to the east 
and the other to the west — I caused fresh excavations to 
be made in these two compartments during the month of 
October, 1863; and as the results of these explorations were 
productive of some objects of more than ordinary interest, 
I shall briefly enumerate the specimens so obtained, as also 
the superposition of the deposits passed through. On the 
surface of the western chamber was a deposit of 14 inches of 
rubbish, composed of broken stones, earth, and charcoal, in 
which were foimd fragments of two kinds of pottery — one, 
of a coarse black earth, and very rude manufacture ; the 
other, an apparently inferior Samian ware, and a bone needle, 
about 3 inches in length. Below this deposit was a bed 
of pure clay, 18 inches in thickness, at the bottom of which, 
and upon a stratum of very soft stalagmite 3 feet 2 inches 
thick, were the antlers and bones of the red deer, portions 
of skulls and bones of the short- horned ox, roebuck, wild 
boar, primitive dog, fox, &c. : this layer of soft stalagmite 
rested upon a bed of excessively hard stalagmite 8 inches in 
thickness, upon which lay the nearly perfect skeleton of a 
very fine specimen of the gigantic red deer, with antlers of 
great beauty. An excavation was next made to the depth 
of 6 feet, passing through clay mixed with stones, gravel, 
and sand, and subsequently penetrating, by a boring-rod, 
to a further depth of 6 feet of soft unmixed clay, without 
reaching any bottom. 
The floor of the east chamber was next examined, and the 
deposit of 18 inches of rubbish yielded a large brass coin of 
