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 | | The cave consists of a large horizontal chamber and a small passage, connected with a swallow-hole close by, and exposed in the working face of a quarry in 1901, at a depth of about 40 ft. from the surface. |
 | | The locality is in the limestone plateau, 1158 ft. high, which forms the divide between the waters flowing into the Mersey on the west and the Humber on the east. |
 | | Both swallow-j bole and cave were comnletelv blocked up with debris, and the latter was filled with red and yellow clay, horizontally stratified and containing pebbles of sandstone from the neighboring ridge of Axe Edge, and bones and teeth of fossil mammals, some waterworn and others without traces of transport by water. |
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