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Treak Cliff CavernTreak Cliff Cavern is a show cave in Derbyshire within the Peak District. It is to be found near Castleton and is one of only two sites where the ornamental mineral Blue John can be excavated; the other being the nearby Blue John Cavern. The Blue John that can be seen in the show cave is not mined but it is extracted in small quantities from other areas of the cave and made into saleable items like bowls, jewellery and ornaments. The cave has two sections, the Old Series, discovered by lead miners in the 18th century, and the New Series, discovered during blasting in the 1920s. Only the Old Series contains Blue John, but the New Series is well decorated with flowstone, stalagmites and stalactites. Georgian miners were not the first here though: three human skeletons and flint implements from the Neolithic era were found in a small cave nearby in 1921. (Read more) |
