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Kirkdale Cave is a cave located in Kirkdale near Kirkbymoorside in the Vale of Pickering North Yorkshire England. The cave was discovered by workmen in 1821 and was found to contain fossilized bones of a variety of mammals not currently found in Great Britain including hippopotamus the farthest north any such remains have ever been found elephant and the remains of numerous cave hyenas. William Buckland analyzed the cave and its contents in 1822.