Windy Knoll Fissure, Castleton, Derbyshire


NGR: SK 1263 8303

NMR: SK 18 SW 33

SMR: 3304

SAM: -

DCR: 41

Excavation: R. Pennington, J. Tym & W.B. Dawkins, 1870-1876.

Curation: Buxton Museum; Bolton Museum; Derby Museum; Cambridge; British Museum, London; Sheffield City Museum.

Burials: MNI: 1+

Finds: Animal bones.

Date: Unknown (5)

14C: 37,300 bp (OxA-4579) on bison bone.

Bibliography:

Barker, I. & Beck, J.S. (2010) Caves of the Peak District. Hucklow Publishing, Derbyshire.

Cordingley, J. (1978) Potential at Windy Knoll, Castleton, Derbyshire. Sheffield University Speleological Society Journal 2 (6): 44.

Dawkins, W.B. (1875) The mammalia found at Windy Knoll. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 31: 246-255.

Dawkins, W.B. (1877) The exploration of the ossiferous deposit at Windy Knoll, Castleton, Derbyshire, by Rooke Pennington and Prof. Boyd Dawkins. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Society of London 33: 724-729.

Heath, T. (1882) Pleistocene deposits in Derbyshire and its immediate vicinity. Derbyshire Archaeological Journal 4: 161-178.

Hedges, R.E.M. et al. (1996) Radiocarbon dates from the Oxford AMS system. Archaeometry datelist 22. Archaeometry 38: 391-415.

Pennington, R. (1875) On the bone caves in the neighbourhood of Castleton, Derbyshire. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 31: 238-245.

Pennington, R. (1877) Notes on the Barrows and Bone-Caves of Derbyshire. With an Account of a Descent into Eldon Hole. London, Macmillan.

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