Are these caves?

ditzy 24//7

ditzy 24//7

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underground said:
They look ideal places for a caveman to sleep, light a fire, raise a family and cook Sabre Toothed Tigers. That makes them caves... (Peter's right)
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Camping in the edge of a cave and cooking on a camp fire sounds like the perfect east to spend an evening  :D
 
martinm

martinm

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You want to look  at the cave at the West end of Harborough Rocks near Wirksworth.. It has previously had a door of some sort fitted across the entrance. It is is very roomy and has a hole in the roof to facilitate  the exit of smoke from a fire.  Wouldn't mind living  there myself tbh. If only access were easier to get my furniture  there!, lol.
 
kay

kay

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mmilner said:
You want to look  at the cave at the West end of Harborough Rocks near Wirksworth.. It has previously had a door of some sort fitted across the entrance. It is is very roomy and has a hole in the roof to facilitate  the exit of smoke from a fire.  Wouldn't mind living  there myself tbh. If only access were easier to get my furniture  there!, lol.
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Not quite a cave, but last year we were in a bar where the whole of one wall was a boulder. And when we went upstairs to our bedroom, we found the rest of the boulder was in our bathroom, with a little shelf carved out of it to hold the toilet roll.
 
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Jenny P

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mmilner said:
You want to look  at the cave at the West end of Harborough Rocks near Wirksworth.. It has previously had a door of some sort fitted across the entrance. It is is very roomy and has a hole in the roof to facilitate  the exit of smoke from a fire.  Wouldn't mind living  there myself tbh. If only access were easier to get my furniture  there!, lol.
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I seem to recall writing a piece for the DCA Newsletter many years ago on the Harborough Rocks Cave and I certainly produced a survey of the cave.  It was mentioned by Daniel Defoe, who recorded a family living there (that's in the 18/19 Century).  It has been the site of archaeological digs which found remains going back before the Roman occupation of Britain.
 
Wormy

Wormy

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Flicking through the northern cave guide...book 5 I think... and their are caves in there that are only a few meters deep, Widley caves in Stanhopeburn are the first that spring to mind.
 
andys

andys

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Wormy said:
Flicking through the northern cave guide...book 5 I think... and their are caves in there that are only a few meters deep, Widley caves in Stanhopeburn are the first that spring to mind.
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Didn't Dave Brook once define a cave with a test? If it passed the test then it got included in Northern Caves and if it didn't - well it didn't.
 
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