| Towards
the top of the cliff, on the northern side of the gorge, are
three caves known as The Arch (also known as Lions Mouth),
Cave 7 and Cave 8. Apart from a small trench dug at the back
of the Arch Cave by Simon Collcutt in 1974, only casual finds
from this cave have been made by Leslie Armstrong, Rogan Jenkinson
and Roger Jacobi. The bone remains consist mainly of bison
with rare remains of wolf and reindeer. There is no evidence
for people using this cave.
W.L.H. Duckworth and F.E.
Swainson, in or before 1895, most likely excavated either
Cave 7 or Cave 8. During this excavation they found bear,
spotted hyaena, woolly rhinoceros, reindeer and bovids. One piece
of reindeer bone possibly from one of these caves has cut
marks which may have been made by Neanderthal people.
 Examine
the Reindeer leg bone found at Creswell Crags.
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