CAVE BURIAL

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

Sevenways Cave


Excavation

D. Bramwell, 1948-54.

Curation

Buxton Museum; Stoke City Museum.

Burials

MNI: 1+

Finds

Leaf shaped arrowheads, Peterborough Ware pottery, Romano-British and Medieval artefacts.

Dates

PeriodReliability
NeolithicStratigraphical context of human remains indeterminate

14C

-

Wetton

Staffordshire

Midlands

NGR: SK 0982 5490

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External References

Derbyshire Cave Registry730
National Monuments RecordSK 05 SE 3
Sites and Monument Record00291, 05030

Bibliography

Bramwell, D. (1952) Seven Ways Cave. Peakland Archaeological Society Newsletter 8: 4-8.

Bramwell, D. (1954) Report on excavations at Seven Ways Cave. Peakland Archaeological Society Newsletter 10: 8-10.

Branigan, K. & Dearne, M.J. (1991) A Gazetteer of Romano-British Cave Sites and their Finds. Department of Archaeology and Prehistory, University of Sheffield.

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

Trent and Peak Archaeological Trust (1993) Manifold Valley, Staffordshire, Cave Survey. Trent and Peak Archaeological Trust and RCHME.

Article Author Graham Mullan