CAVE BURIAL

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

One Ash Shelter


Excavation

T.A. Harris, 1928.

Curation

? Buxton Museum.

Burials

MNI: 1

Finds

Discoidal knife, leaf-shaped arrowhead, flint flakes.

Dates

PeriodReliability
Neolithic14C date obtained on organic material closely associated with a burial, or, undated human remains closely associated with diagnostic prehistoric artifects or other datable material

14C

-

Additional Notes

Later Neolithic

Abney and Abney Grange

Derbyshire

Midlands

NGR: SK 1726 6559

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External References

Derbyshire Cave Registry176
National Monuments RecordSK 16 NE 10
Sites and Monument Record10262

Bibliography

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

Bramwell, D. (1962) The nature of the Upper Palaeolithic cultures in the western areas of the Peak District. Peakland Archaeological Society Newsletter 18: 17.

Ford, T.D. & Beck, J.S. (1977) The caves of Lathkill Dale. In Ford, T.D. (ed) Limestones and caves of the Peak District. Geo Abstracts, Norwich, pp. 395-408.

Green, H.S. (1980) The Flint Arrowheads of the British Isles. B.A.R. British Series 75. B.A.R., Oxford.

Article Author Graham Mullan