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OPEN FISSURE IN DUNCOMBE PARK, 
mentality of the hyaenas, and not of the diluvial waters, that the animal 
remains were collected in such quantities in the adjacent den at 
Kirkdale. 
At about a mile east of Kirby Moorside, at a spot called the Back 
of the Parks, there are other quarries on both sides of a comb that 
descends rapidly into the valley of the Dove, in the face of which 
there occur several small caverns and vertical fissures: these fissures 
vary from one to six feet in breadth, and rise from the bottom of the 
quarry to the surface of the land, and are entirely filled with diluvial 
loam, of the same kind as that in the caves both here and at Kirkdale, 
and the Manor Vale. It was in the upper part of one of the fissures 
that several human skeletons were found and taken out in the year 
1786, but the spot on which they occurred has been destroyed in con¬ 
tinuing the workings of the quarry: they were probably bodies that 
had been interred here after a battle. 
OPEN FISSURE IN DUNCOMBE PARK. 
The newly discovered fissure in Buncombe Park differs from those 
we have been last describing in the circumstance of its being of post¬ 
diluvian origin; it contains no diluvial sediment and no pebbles, and 
has within it the remains of animals of existing species only, and these 
in a much more recent and more perfect state of preservation than 
the bones at Kirkdale. It is a great irregular crack or chasm, in the 
solid limestone rock, which forms a steep and lofty cliff on the right 
side of the valley of the Bye, being in that most beautiful valley of 
denudation which descends from Rivaulx Abbey through Duncombe 
