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I agree, perhaps it could indicate land acquired through a dowry?

According to Carole Hough, who should know (she is a Professor of Onomastics, no less) most place-name evidence for women is found in minor names such as field names or natural features in the landscape. The attribute 'wife' seems to be common in place-names in northwest England, especially in...

A perched aquifer?

The published grid reference might be inaccurate (pre-GPS). The YSS survey shows two entrances, about 10 metres apart. A Google maps extract in an article in The Doncaster Naturalist Vol 2 Issue 3 (available here ) gives an approximate location of the entrances near SK51459964. The site is a...

It looks like a rare example of a wrought iron tethering ring. These were once common in mineral mining areas (for example northern Dartmoor) also there are a few examples of bull rings surviving in market places (as in Eyam Square). So my guess is that it was either for tethering miners'...

Cavers are over under the moon at this discovery!

Pitlamp is correct, the first step is to confirm whether the bones are human or animal. If you dont know any archaeologists then contact either the county archaeology service, or (if your site is inside the boundary of a National Park) then contact the relevant National Park Archaeology...

I can provide a home for the issues of Cave Science (and will be happy to collect them).

You should be able to find all known Peak cave entrances here: https://www.peakdistrictcaving.info/home/the-caves Click on the area where your site is located, then click on Area Map - this will bring up the locations of all recorded caves in your area. If your cave is not on the map then it is...

There is an unpublished report by Anthony Brown (Northern Boggarts), but unfortunately I do not have a copy of this, and neither does the British Caving Library. Brown, A. (2013) Scoska Bone Hunt, 10 July 2013 Unpublished Report.

The finger bone was found on the surface of the cave floor in 2013, as far as I am aware.

In 2014 Tony Brown obtained a radiocarbon date on a human finger bone found in the cave (presumed to be from the same skeleton) which showed that the individual died in early medieval times around 700-800 AD.

Ladyside Wood Resurgence is also mentioned in DCA Newsletter 98 p.2, in connection with a dye testing experiment. It seems to be somewhere upstream of Magic Mushroom Resurgence.

And now he has retrospective permission for the tunnel - onwards and downwards! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-61851694

Adventurous. Caving is essentially a recreational activity, generally lacking the structured competitiveness found in most sports.

The quoted text is from Ashmead?s report (1965), I have not visited the cave but it will be interesting to hear if the cave is still accessible today.  The site is not listed in Northern Caves so it may have had little or no interest.

You will find a brief account by Ashmead of the discovery of this cave in the RRCPC Newsletter Vol 3 No 2 Summer 1965 https://www.rrcpc.org.uk/newsletters/NL_V3_N2_A3.htm "In May Duncan Baldwin and myself came across an open pot near Hutton Roof. The pot takes the form of a rift 20? deep with...

"...the richer sort of people, especially the nobility and gentry from the west part of the city, thronged out of town with their families and servants in an unusual manner; and this was more particularly seen in Whitechappel; that is to say, the Broad Street where I lived; indeed, nothing was...

This is from an article by Ernest Neal in 1972: "In many districts badgers exploit the junctures between strata. This applies particularly to sets dug in sandy soil with a hard impermeable stratum above it which keeps the set dry and prevents the roof falling in. Thus in the Blackdown Hills...

I was at the excavation in 1997 but unfortunately do not have a copy of the video.  There was also a short film on BBC's Inside Out, broadcast in spring 2008, when the skull was repatriated to join its relatives in the cave.