NGR: SK 0980 5587
NMR: SK 05 NE 20
SMR: 00369, 04129, 04130, 05033
SAM: -
DCR: 658
Excavation: F.H. Thomas, R. Moore, S. Nicholson, 1960-1; M. Milner 1980-1.
Curation: Stoke-on-Trent Museum.
Burials: MNI: 7 (3 adults, 4 juveniles).
Finds: Leaf shaped arrowhead; microlith; thumb scraper; Romano-British artefacts; animal bones.
Date: : Later Neolithic (4)
14C: -
Bibliography:
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Green, H.S. (1980) The Flint Arrowheads of the British Isles. B.A.R. British Series 75. B.A.R., Oxford.
Milner, M. (1981) Recent discoveries in the Manifold Valley. Derbyshire Caving Association Newsletter 48: 1-4.
Milner, M. & Johnson, S. (1983) Darfar Ridge Cave. The Manifold Caver 25-28.
Nicholson, S. (1966) The second report on the excavation of Darfur Ridge Cave. Peakland Archaeological Society Newsletter 21: 20-25.
Papakonstantinou, N. (2009) Human Skeletal Remains from Neolithic Caves in the Peak District: an Osteoarchaeological and Taphonomic Approach. Unpublished MSc dissertation, Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield.
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Trent and Peak Archaeological Trust (1993) Manifold Valley, Staffordshire, Cave Survey. Trent and Peak Archaeological Trust and RCHME.