The Door into Joint Mitnor Cave, Higher Kiln Quarry, Buckfastleigh
Introduction
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The Door into Joint Mitnor Cave, Higher Kiln Quarry, Buckfastleigh
Image: © Chris Reynolds Taken: 15 Jun 2013
I was involved in digging the foundations of the wall in 1960/61, which was built in order to safeguard the bone deposits and allow them to be used as an educational geological site. The greenish vertical area in the bottom left of the picture is a section, now covered with algae, etc, of the sterile mud deposits that underlie the talus cone. Similar red-brown mud deposits occur in all the Buckfastleigh caves, the high level of clay originating from the granite of nearby Dartmoor.
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Image Location
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50.484169
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-3.772736