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Home: Virtual tour: Point 3 - In the entrance chamber of Church Hole

Creswell Crags gorge map Entrance to Boat House Cave Western end of the gorge In the entrance of Pin Hole The inner chamber to Pin Hole Extraordinary finds from Mother Grundy's Parlour The end of the tour Taking a look at Pin Hole At the entrance to Robin Hood Cave View up to Robin Hood Cave In the entrance chamber of Church Hole View up to Church Hole Eastern end of the gorge Southern shore Northern shore Map of Robin Hood Cave Almost at the end of Robin Hood Cave The central chamber of Robin Hood Cave Between the west and central chambers The east chamber The west chamber of Robin Hood Cave At the back of the west chamber to Robin Hood Cave

We're standing in the entrance chamber of Church Hole where Mello and Heath excavated. They paid workmen to use pick axes and shovels and the whole of this area was cleared in a matter of days. After a few more days they had pressed on 50 metres down the cave passage.

Finds of flint tools and bones of Ice Age animals from this cave tempted the excavators to start exploring Robin Hood Cave, the largest of the caves at Creswell Crags.
Image shwoing the flowstone deposit
The layers of earth which had washed into the cave lay beneath this flowstone, a hard stalagmitic material. The excavators had to break through this level to remove the soft cave earth underneath. At this point they dug down about one and a half metres to the present floor level.

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