Markland Grips Bone Cave (Sepulchral Cave), Elmton, Derbyshire


NGR: SK 510 751

NMR: SK 57 NW 22

SMR: 5251

SAM: -

Excavation: A.L. Armstrong, 1924 .

Curation: Sheffield City Museum.

Burials: MNI: 5+

Finds: Neolithic pottery; animal bones.

Date: : Neolithic (1)

14C: 4760 (OxA-4447), 4740 (OxA-4448) on human bone.

Bibliography:

Armstrong, A.L. (n.d.) Unpublished Notebooks. Sheffield City Museums, Sheffield.

Hart, C.R. (1984) The North Derbyshire Archaeological Survey to A.D. 1500. Derbyshire Archaeological Society and Sheffield City Museums, Sheffield.

Hedges, R.E.M. et al. (1996) Radiocarbon dates from the Oxford AMS system: Archaeometry datelist 22. Archaeometry 38 (2): 391-419.

Jenkinson, R.D.S. (1978). The Archaeological Caves and Rock Shelters in the Creswell Crags Area. Creswell Crags Visitor Centre Research Reports No. 1. Nottinghamshire County Council.

Jenkinson, R.D.S. (1984) Creswell Crags: Late Pleistocene Sites in the East Midlands. British Archaeological Reports British Series 122. Oxford, B.A.R.

Marsden, B.M. (1994) Burial Mounds of Derbyshire. 4th edition. Privately printed.

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