CAVE BURIAL

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

Ossiferous Fissure

Also known as Cave C8


Excavation

W.L.H. Duckworth & F.E. Swainson, 1894.

Curation

Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge; University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography, Cambridge.

Burials

MNI: 1+

Finds

Quartzite and flint flakes, animal bones.

Dates

PeriodReliability
UnknownNo reliable dating information available

14C

-

Whitwell

Derbyshire

Midlands

NGR: SK 5335 7415

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External References

National Monuments RecordSK 57 SW 34

Bibliography

Duckworth, W.L.H. & Swainson, F.E. (1895) A new ossiferous fissure in Creswell Crags. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 51: 237.

Jenkinson, R.D.S. (1984) Creswell Crags. British Archaeological Reports British Series 122. B.A.R., Oxford.

Article Author Graham Mullan