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728 white sand (No. 1). At the far end of the chamber blocks of limestone were imbedded in the clay, and between these many bones of Bison were firmly wedged, which were extracted with considerable difficulty. The total thickness of the deposits in chamber B varied from about 9 feet near the entrance to 5 feet at the end (figs. 6 & 7).

On comparing the above strata with those previously explored in the Cresswell Crags, it is obvious that we must correlate them with the earlier rather than with the later series. The breccia and the upper cave-earth of the Robin-Hood and the Church-Hole caves, with their highly finished suite of palæolithic implements and numerous bones gnawed by hyænas or crushed by man, are conspicuous by their absence. When, however, we compare the red sandy cave-earth, No. 4, of Mother Grundy's Parlour with the red sand underlying the cave-earth in the two above-mentioned caverns, they will be seen to belong to the same stage in the history of the caves of the district. The few rude quartzite tools, and the numerous bones of animals, remarkably perfect and free from the gnawing of hyænas, are to be noted in both. It must, however, be