1822-1824.] 
DREAM LEAD MINE . 
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The following jeu di esprit on the female skeleton found 
by Dr. Buckland in the Paviland Cave is from the pen of 
Mr. Philip Duncan :— 
“ Have ye heard of the woman so long underground ? 
Have ye heard of the woman that Buckland has found, 
With her bones of empyreal hue ? 
Oh, fair one of modern days ! hang down your head, 
The antediluvians rouged when dead— 
Only granted in lifetime to you ! ” 
A third cave was that which was discovered in the 
Dream Lead Mine, Derbyshire. The lead mine called 
the Dream is in the hamlet of Caelow, about one mile 
from Wirksworth, and on the property of Philip Gell, 
Esq., by whose exertions nearly the entire skeleton of a 
rhinoceros was extracted, together with some considerable 
remains of the horse, ox, and deer. 
Buckland thus describes the cave and its contents :— 
“In December 1822, some miners engaged in pursuing 
a lead vein had sunk a shaft about sixty feet through solid 
mountain limestone, when they suddenly penetrated a large 
cavern, filled entirely to the roof with a confused mass of clay 
and fragments of stone, through which they attempted to 
continue their shaft perpendicularly downwards to the vein 
below ; in this operation they were interrupted by the earth 
and fragments beginning to move and fall in upon them 
continually from the sides until the roof of a large cavern 
became apparent. It was nearly in the centre of this 
subsiding mass, and at the height of many feet above the 
floor of the cave, that the workmen discovered the bones of 
a rhinoceros. They lay very near to each other, and prob¬ 
ably formed an entire skeleton before they were disturbed. 
Margam December 13th, 1892: “We have a number of bones at 
Penrice Castle which were found in Paviland Cave, but I believe the 
bulk of them were taken to the Swansea Museum.” 
