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CAVE EXPLORATIONS. 
Ill March, 1865, Mr. Farrer, of Ingleborough House, along with 
i\Ir. Denny, contributed the results of further explorations in the 
Dowkabottom Cave. The surface of the western chamber was com- 
posed of 14 inches of broken stone, earth, and charcoal, in which were 
found fragments of pottery, part composed of coarse black earth, and the 
other of red Samian pottery. Below was a bed of clay 18 inches thick, 
resting on a stratum of soft stalagmite, about 3 feet thick, in which the 
bones of several animals were obtained. The soft stalagmite rested 
on a bed of hard stalagmite, 8 inches in thickness, upon which lay a 
nearly perfect skeleton of a very fine specimen of the gigantic red 
deer, with antlers of great beauty. An excavation was made to the 
depth of 6 feet, passing through clay mixed with stones and gravel ; 
and a boring rod was inserted for a further distance of 6 feet through 
soft clay, without reaching any bottom. The chamber eastwards 
from the opening was also examined, and beneath 18 inches of clay 
the hard stalagmite was dug tln'ough down to the rock, 4 yards and 
a half in thickness. A flint implement was found, along with horns 
of the red deer, and a portion of the left antler of the gigantic Irish 
elk (Megaceros Hibernicus), which forms the second instance of 
the remains occurring in Yorkshire. Shortly before the reading of 
the paper, whilst exploring the west chamber, about 4 yards from the 
spot where the skeleton of the red deer was discovered, a slight 
hollow or grave was disclosed, which had been dug in the hard stalag- 
mite, measuring 1 foot long, 8 inches wide, and li inches in depth, 
in which were the remains of a skeleton of a child probably 2^ years 
of age. The bones were in a very imperfect and fragile condition, 
and were embedded in the superimposed soft stalagmite. The whole 
of the bones and other objects obtained during these excavations are 
stated to have been presented to the Museum of the Leeds Philo- 
sophical Society by Mr. Farrer. The two chambers extend conjointly 
390 feet in length, and as the entrance to another fresh cave had 
been discovered, additional and important results might be expected, 
it being Mr. Farrer' s intention to make a further examination of the 
new cave. 
At a meeting held at Leeds in May, 1861, the Rev. John Ken- 
rick, F.S.A., of York, contributed a paper on the Rev. Mr. M'Enery's 
