PKOCEEDINGS 
OF 
THE LITERAEY AND PHILOSOPHICAL 
SOCIETY. 
Ordinary Meeting, October 6th, 1874. 
Rev. William Gaskell, M.A., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
On the Ossiferous Deposit at Windy Knoll, near Castle- 
ton,” by Rooke Pennington, Esq., LL.B. 
Ill October, 1870, I was in the Windy Knoll quarry, near 
Castleton, a place well known to geologists, when I observed 
a large bone, a tibia, sticking out of some debris overlying 
the rock. I took it and one or two smaller bones away with 
me and showed them to Mr. Boyd Dawkins, who named 
them, and after conversation with him, I decided to explore 
the place. This could not be done for a long time, as the 
floor of the quarry was covered with an increasing mass of 
broken stone for the repair of the turnpike, and the fissure 
near which the bone was found was so placed that in removing 
earth from it serious injury would arise to the road stone. 
The place was, however, looked after, the permission of 
the proprietor for an investigation, obtained, and from time 
to time some good specimens were obtained both of bison 
and reindeer bones. (Mr. Dawkins had made me certain of 
the nature of the bones.) The day before Good Friday the 
quarrymen had picked up a number of bones from a fall of 
earth wdiich had occurred, and placed them in a basket. 
They forgot to bring them down to Castleton, and on Good 
Friday, some young men from Manchester carried them off. 
They repeated their visit once or twice, and did considerable 
damage by pulling away the soil, so that we had to set a man 
purposely to watch the place, and preserve it as far as possible 
Proceedings — Lit. & Phil. Society. — Yol. XIV. — No. 1. — Session 1874-5. 
