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Markland Grips Bone Cave

Also known as Sepulchral Cave

Excavation

A.L. Armstrong, 1924 .

Curation

Sheffield City Museum.

Burials

MNI: 5+

Finds

Neolithic pottery; animal bones.

Dates

Period	Reliability
Neolithic	¹⁴C date obtained directly on human remains

¹⁴C

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

Field Glossary

Elmton

Derbyshire

Midlands

NGR: SK 510 751

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External References

National Monuments Record	SK 57 NW 22
Sites and Monument Record	5251

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Armstrong, A.L. (n.d.) Unpublished Notebooks.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.

Article Author Graham Mullan