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| Boggart Hole Cave, North Yorkshire | ||
| Boggart Hole Cave | ||
| locality:- | Ivescar | |
| county:- | North Yorkshire | |
| locality type:- | cave | |
| locality type:- | pothole | |
| coordinates:- | SD747797 (?) | |
| 1Km square:- | SD7479 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD77 | |
| references:- | Balderston c1890 |
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| evidence:- | descriptive text:- Balderston c1890 placename:- Boggart Hole Cave item:- coin hoard |
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| source data:- | Book, Ingleton, Bygone and Present, by Robert R and Margaret
Balderston, published by Simpkin, Marshall and Co, London, and
by Edmndson and Co, 24 High Street, Skipton, Yorkshire, about
1890. goto sourcepage 40:- "..." "Boggart Hole Cave." "To the rear of Ivescar House, and in a rock about forty yards from it, are two openings, one of which becomes almost immediately impassable; the other, on the right hand, is somewhat larger and a fair stream issues from its mouth. One or two lateral passages through a spur of rock are of more interesting and picturesque appearance than the cave itself, which, indeed, has its roof depressed to such an extent at a short distance from the entrance as to render advance not only tedious but unprofitable. The most remarkable circumstance connected with Boggart Hole consists, however, in the fact that at one time, after heavy rainfalls, gold and silver coins were occasionally washed from this contracted cavern. Whether these coins formed part of a hoard secreted in the cave itself or some other cranny up the hill, whence they could be swept by the waters into the rifts in the limestone, has not been ascertained." |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Balderston c1890 map placename:- Boggart Holes |
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| source data:- | Map, the hills in the Ingleton area, probably by Robert R
Balderston, engraved by Goodall and Suddick, Leeds, West
Yorkshire, about 1890. BS1SD77P.jpg "Boggart Holes" item:- private collection : 27.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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