NEWS BY MAIL
REMAINS FOUND AFTER 2,300 YEARS-
Geologists in a newly found cave in a limestone quarry at Bishop Middlfcham, Durham, England, have pieced together the astonishing story of a family which perished there 400 years before Christ (says the “Sunday Express”), There were eight people in the family, and they all used the cave for their home. The stood well over 6ft high. The family’s milk probably came from cattle and goats, the remains of which were found near the mouth of the cave. There were badgers and wolves in profusion for the men to hunt with fine bone spears. The ‘kitchen’ was at back of the cave. Marks of smoke on the stone shows where the fire had been. The family lived happily—butdied together in the cave which had been their home. The roof collapsed without warning, and lor 2,300 years their bones lay under the stone. The cave wa s hidden until a modern quarryinan fired a shot, which revealed the entrance of it.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11843, 26 January 1933, Page 2
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