Kirkdale Cave

Kirkdale Cave

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location =Vale of Pickering, North Yorkshire, England
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discovery =1821
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access =Entrance is in face of old quarry
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pronunciation = Kirkdale Cave is a cave located in Kirkdale near Kirkbymoorside in the Vale of Pickering, North Yorkshire, England. The cave was discovered by workmen in 1821, and was found to contain bones of elephants, hippopotamuses, rhinoceroses, hyenas, bison, giant deer, smaller mammals and birds. [cite web|url=http://www.mylearning.org/jpage.asp?jpageid=33&journeyid=49|author=MY learning: Learning with Museums, Libraries and Archives in Yorkshire|title= Ideas and Evidence in Science: The Kirkdale Cave: Discovery of the cave|accessdate=2007-10-15] This is the furthest north in the world that hippopotamus remains have been found. [cite web|url=http://www.english-nature.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1003400.pdf|author=Natural England|title=SSSI citation details for Kirkdale cave|accessdate=2007-10-15]

William Buckland studied the bones and in 1823 published his " [http://books.google.com/books?id=VsoQAAAAIAAJ Reliquiae Diluvianae; or, Observations on the organic remains contained in caves, fissures, and diluvial gravel, and on other geological phenomena, attesting the action of an universal deluge] ", challenging the belief that the bones were brought to the cave by Noah's flood and concluding that hyenas had lived in the cave and brought bones of their prey into the cave. [cite web|url=http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/learning/pdfs/buckland.pdf|title=Learning more:William Buckland|author=Oxford University Museum of Natural History|page=3|accessdate=2007-10-15] The specimens were an original part of the archaeology collection of the Yorkshire Museum and it said that "the scientific interest aroused founded the Yorkshire Philosophical Society". [cite web|url=http://www.mylearning.org/jpage.asp?journeyid=49&jpageid=24|author=MY learning: Learning with Museums, Libraries and Archives in Yorkshire|title= Ideas and Evidence in Science: The Kirkdale Cave: Book that changed the world|accessdate=2007-10-15]

The cave is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a Geological Conservation Review site.

The Saxon St Gregory's Minster with its unusual sundial is nearby.

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External links

* [http://www.english-nature.org.uk/Special/sssi/sssi_details.cfm?sssi_id=1003400 SSSI details] from Natural England
* [http://www.jncc.gov.uk/earthheritage/gcrdb/GCR.asp?GCR=1192 GCR details] from Joint Nature Conservation Committee


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