Elder Bush Cave
Excavation
G.H. Wilson, 1934-9; D. Bramwell, 1946-52.
Curation
Buxton Museum; Bolton Museum.
Burials
MNI: 1+
Finds
Neolithic and Early Bronze Age flints; Neolithic, Early Bronze Age, Early Iron Age and Romano-British pottery; animal bones.
Dates
| Period | Reliability |
|---|---|
| Bronze Age | Stratigraphical context of human remains indeterminate |
| Neolithic | Stratigraphical context of human remains indeterminate |
14C
10600 bp (OxA-811) on Cervus bone; 9000 bp (OxA-812) on charcoal.
External References
| Derbyshire Cave Registry | 666 |
| National Monuments Record | SK 05 SE 2 |
| Sites and Monument Record | 00051, 05008 |
| Scheduled Ancient Monuments | Staffs 35 |
Bibliography
Bramwell, D. (1947-50) Peakland Archaeological Society Newsletter 1: 2-4; 2: 3-4; 3: 3-4; 4: 2-4; 5: 3-4; 6: 2-3; 7: 3-5.
Bramwell, D. (1964) The excavations at Elder Bush Cave, Wetton, Staffs. North Staffordshire Journal of Field Studies 4: 46-59.
Bramwell, D. (1977) Archaeology and palaeontology. In Ford, T.D. (ed) Limestones and Caves of the Peak District. Geo Books, Norwich, pp. 263-295.
Bramwell, D. & Shotton, F.W. (1982) Rodent remains from the Caddis-bearing tufa of Elder Bush Cave. Quaternary Newsletter 38: 7-13.
Branigan, K. & Dearne, M.J. (1991) A Gazetteer of Romano-British Cave Sites and their Finds. Department of Archaeology and Prehistory, University of Sheffield.
Gowlett, J.A.J. et al. (1986) Radiocarbon dates from the Oxford AMS system: Archaeometry datelist 4. Archaeometry 28: 206-221.
Green, H.S. (1980) The Flint Arrowheads of the British Isles. B.A.R. British Series 75. B.A.R., Oxford.
Rowe, P., Austin, T. & Atkinson, T. (1989) The Quaternary evolution of the South Pennines. Transactions of the British Cave Research Association 16: 117-121.
Wilson, G.H. (1937) Cave work in the Manifold Valley. Caves and Caving 1 (2): 61-69.
Article Author Graham Mullan