CHAPTER V 
FURTHER EXAMPLES OF LATER PALAEOLITHIC MEN 
IN ENGLAND 
In our pursuit of Englishmen of the later Palaeolithic 
phases of culture, we now pass to the very centre of 
England — to the eastern strip of the county of Derby 
which is crossed by the direct railway route from 
Mansfield, in the neighbouring county of Notts, to 
Sheffield, in the adjoining county of York to the north, 
^iniestone crags crop up in the eastern part of Derby- 
shire and streams pass eastwards to join the Trent, The 
eye of the passenger, as he journeys to Sheffield through 
this part of Derbyshire, is certain to catch the picturesque 
outlines of the Cresswell Crags, famous for their caves. 
Between 1873 and 1875, ^^^ ^ev- J. Magens Mello^ and 
Professor Boyd Dawkins explored the strata of those 
caves, and found, not only the remains of the various 
extinct animals which characterise the later Palaeolithic 
periods, but also — the first ever discovered in England — 
one of those remarkable engravings on bone which give 
the cultures of the Continental caves a high place in the 
estimation of artists. The carving found represents 
the head of a horse worked in the style of the cave 
men — probably of Magdalenian date.; They also found 
flints worked in the same manner as the implements at 
Solutre. The discoveries at Cresswell Crags showed that 
the cultures of the late cave periods existed in England 
as well as France. The cave which is to give us the 
1 Quaff. Joiirn. Geol. Soc, vols. xxxi. p. 679, xxxii. p. 240, xxxiii. p. 579, 
and xxxv. p. 724. 
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