One of the first people to dig here was a man from Creswell village. He was acting on information from his wife who had a dream of buried treasure in the cave. Not long after this event a hippopotamus tooth was offered for sale. These finds prompted the Reverend Magens Mello and Professor W.Boyd Dawkins to excavate here in 1878, work which was supervised by Donald Knight. They removed almost all of the deposits from the chamber and side passage. Since that time, Leslie Armstrong in 1923-1925, Charles McBurney in 1959 and 1960, John Campbell in 1969 and Simon Collcutt in 1974 have carried out excavations. This later work concentrated on undisturbed deposits on the scree deposits that led up to the cave.

Who used Mother Grundy's Parlour?