CAVE BURIAL

Gazetteer of Caves, Fissures and Rock Shelters in Britain Containing Human Remains

Monsal Dale


Excavation

1854.

Curation

? Sheffield City Museum.

Burials

MNI: 1

Finds

Flint implement; animal bones.

Dates

PeriodReliability
UnknownNo reliable dating information available

14C

-

Little Longstone

Derbyshire

Midlands

NGR: SK 1812 7183

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External References

National Monuments RecordSK 17 SE 16
Sites and Monument Record9309

Bibliography

Bateman, T. (1861) Ten Years Diggings in Celtic and Saxon Grave Hills, in the Counties of Derby, Stafford and York, from 1848 to 1858. Smith, London.

Howarth, E. (1899) Catalogue of the Bateman Antiquities in the Sheffield Public Museum. Dulau, London.

Jewitt, L.F.W. (1870) Grave-Mounds and their Contents: a Manual of Archaeology. Groombridge, London.

Marsden, B. (1994) The Burial Mounds of Derbyshire. 4th edition, privately printed.

Article Author Graham Mullan