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evidence of which we are in search — the kind of man 
who lived in England during the Aurignacian period — 
is near a station short of the Cresswell Crags, three miles 
to the south of them, the station of Langwith. A little 
way to the east of the station lies the church and rectory 
of Langwith Bassett. Behind the clump of trees which 
surrounds the church and rectory runs a brook, the 
Poulter, flowing eastwards along a narrow valley. The 
rector, the Rev. E. H. Mullins, is an accomplished 
geologist. He had lived many years in the parish 
before he discovered that in the little valley, just behind 
the rectory, lay a buried cave rich in records of Palaeolithic 
date. The discovery came about in this way. In the 
autumn of 1903 his son, Mr A. F. Mullins, then a 
Cambridge undergraduate, along with two college friends, 
was seeking a subterranean passage which tradition said 
existed between the valley and the church. They began 
to explore an old fox's earth which was hid amongst 
nettles and weeds on the side of the valley, just under 
a projecting outcrop of limestone rock and a little 
distance above the northern side of the stream — the 
Poulter. Forcing their way in on hands and knees, 
they discovered that the space widened and led, by 
spaces they could just squeeze their bodies through, to 
other passages and expansions. It was then that it 
dawned on Mr Mullins that they had discovered a buried 
or filled-up cave which might yield similar treasures to 
those revealed by the neighbouring caves in the Cresswell 
Crags years before. 
The household of the rectory began a systematic 
and laborious exploration of the' cave— extending over 
a number of years from 1903 onwards. The net result 
of their labours,^ I have represented diagrammatically in 
fig. 32. It will be seen that the cave had become filled 
almost to the roof, the deposit on the floor amounting 
in depth to about 12 feet (3-6 m.). When the entrance 
and the first or central chamber (about 13 feet m dia- 
1 See account by Mr y{n\\\x^s, Derbyshire ArchcEological and Natural 
History Society s Journal, 1913, p. i. 
