Kirkdale Cave
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Kirkdale Cave is a cave and fossil site located in Kirkdale near Kirkbymoorside in the Vale of Pickering, North Yorkshire, England. It was discovered by workmen in 1821, and found to contain fossilized bones of a variety of mammals not currently found in Great Britain, including hippopotamuses, elephants and cave hyenas.
Entrance to Kirkdale Cave
William Conybeare drew this cartoon of Buckland poking his head into a prehistoric hyena den in 1822 to celebrate Buckland's ground-breaking analysis of the fossils found in Kirkdale Cave.
Kirkdale Cave Hyena mandible now in the Yorkshire Museum
William Buckland
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William Buckland DD, FRS was an English theologian who became Dean of Westminster. He was also a geologist and palaeontologist.
Bust of Buckland in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Buckland family silhouette