Ossom's Crag Cave
Also known as Yellersley Tor Cave
Excavation
D. Bramwell, 1954-6.
Curation
Stoke on Trent Museum; Dept of Geology, University of Manchester.
Burials
MNI: 1
Finds
Prehistoric pottery; flints; Romano-British artefacts; animal bones.
Dates
| Period | Reliability |
|---|---|
| Neolithic | 14C date obtained directly on human remains |
14C
4860 bp (OxA-630) on human bone.
External References
| Derbyshire Cave Registry | 708 |
| National Monuments Record | SK 05 NE 16 |
| Sites and Monument Record | 00367, 04107, 05032 |
| Scheduled Ancient Monuments | 13218 |
Bibliography
Bramwell, D. (1954-58) Peakland Archaeological Society Newsletter 11: 5-7; 12: 13-16; 13: 7-9; 15: 8.
Bramwell, D. (1957) The Lyre 1(2) 20-22.
Bramwell, D. et al. (1987) Ossom’s Cave, Staffordshire: a study of its vertebrate remains and late Pleistocene environments. Staffordshire Archaeological Studies 4. City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent.
Branigan, K. & Dearne, M.J. (1991) A Gazetteer of Romano-British Cave Sites and their Finds. Department of Archaeology and Prehistory, University of Sheffield
Burleigh, R., Ambers, J. & Matthews, R. (1984) British Museum Natural Radiocarbon Measurements XVII. Radiocarbon 26: 59-74.
Gowlett, J.A.J. et al. (1986) Radiocarbon dates from the Oxford AMS system: Archaeometry Datelist 3. Archaeometry 28 (1): 116-125.
O’Connor, T. & Jacobi, R. (2015) Ossom’s Cave, Staffordshire: an Upper Palaeolithic site reconsidered. In: Ashton, N. and Harris, C. (editors) No Stone Unturned. Papers in Honour of Roger Jacobi. London: Lithic Studies Society, pp.127-133.
Scott, K. (1986) Man in Britain in the late Devensian: evidence from Ossom’s Cave. In Roe, D.A. (ed.) Studies in the Upper Palaeolithic of Britain and North West Europe. British Archaeological Reports. B.A.R., Oxford, pp. 63-87.
Article Author Graham Mullan