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THE account in NATURE of May 2, p. 658, of the excavations at Cresswell Crags, and the discovery of engraved bones, calls for some comment from me as being the first to cast doubt on the authenticity of the engravings. Some time ago, and before the meeting, I expressed the opinion to my fellow cave-worker, Mr. A. Leslie Armstrong, that the markings on the three bone fragments from Mother Grundy's Parlour were due to the action of roots. I also told him it was a mistake to outline the figures in Chinese white. At a later date the bones were submitted to Sir William Boyd Dawkins and he brought them in to me for an opinion. I was able to convince him, by means of similarly marked bones in the Manchester Museum from excavations of various dates, that, beyond the two convergent incised lines on the “rhinoceros” piece, the markings on the three bone fragments were due entirely to root-action and were not of human origin.
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JACKSON, J. The Cresswell Engravings. Nature 115, 874 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115874a0
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