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Poole's Cavern
Poole's Cavern or Poole's Hole is a two-million-year-old〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Geology )〕 natural limestone cave on the edge of Buxton in the Peak District, in the county of Derbyshire, England.
Pooles Cavern forms part of the Wye system, and has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
==History==
The name derives from an outlaw, Poole, who reputedly used the cave as a lair and a base to rob travellers in the fifteenth century.〔(Oldham, T. (2002) History of Poole's Cavern )〕 Archeological explorations in 1981 and 1983 have suggested that the cave was occupied from the Bronze Age. Some of the finds have been interpreted as suggesting that one of the chambers was used for religious purposes by Romano-Britons; an alternative explanation is that the cave was a metal-workers' workshop.〔(Myers A. An archaeological resource assessment of Roman Derbyshire. The East Midlands Archaeological Research Framework Project )〕
Officially opened as a show cave in 1853 by the 6th Duke of Devonshire, the cave was already a tourist attraction, being listed as one of the Wonders of the Peak by Charles Cotton in 1683. Mary, Queen of Scots, is claimed to have been an early visitor. Under the management of the Duke's overseer, Frank Redfern, the entrance was widened and, in 1859, a system of gas lamps was installed to light the caverns (one of the earliest uses of gas in this context), which remained in use until the cave closed in 1965. It reopened in 1976.
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