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Kent's Hole
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A limestone cave near Torquay in Devonshire, England, one of the earliest excavated (1820s) sites with evidence for man's coexisting with extinct animals. Explored by Father John MacEnery in the 1820s, Kent's Cavern was not taken seriously until it was fully excavated in the 1860s by William Pengelly, who used the cave's resources to offer substantial proof for the "antediluvian" existence of man.
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