Thors Cave
Also known as Thyrsis's Cavern
Excavation
S. Carrington, 1864-5.
Curation
Derby Museum; Stoke on Trent Museum; Sheffield Museum.
Burials
MNI: 1
Finds
Polished stone axe, Beaker and Bronze Age pottery, worked antler, bronze and amber artefacts, Romano-British artefacts.
Dates
| Period | Reliability |
|---|---|
| Neolithic | Stratigraphical context of human remains indeterminate |
14C
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External References
| Derbyshire Cave Registry | 735 |
| National Monuments Record | SK 05 SE 1 |
| Sites and Monument Record | 00290, 05029 |
Bibliography
Bramwell, D. (1950) Cave dwellers and dens of late Pleistocene animals. Transactions of the Cave Research Group of Great Britain 1 (4): 47-52.
Branigan, K. & Dearne, M.J. (1991) A Gazetteer of Romano-British Cave Sites and their Finds. Department of Archaeology and Prehistory, University of Sheffield.
Brown, E. (1865) The exploration of Thors Cave. Transactions of the Midlands Scientific Association 1-6, 19-20, 70-71.
Carrington, S. (1866) An account of the excavations and discoveries in Thors Cave, Wetton Dale, near Dovedale, Derbyshire. The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist 6: 201-212.
Challis, A.J. & Harding, D.W. (1975) Later Prehistory from the Trent to the Tyne. British Archaeological Reports, British Series 20. B.A.R., Oxford.
Dawkins, W.B. (1874) Cave Hunting. MacMillan, London.
Heath, T. (1882) Pleistocene deposits of Derbyshire and its immediate vicinity. Derbyshire Archaeological Journal 4: 161-178.
Roberts, J. (1900) History of Wetton, Thor’s Cave and Ecton Mines in the neighbourhood of Dovedale, Manifold Valley and Beresford Dale. Osborne, Ashbourne.
Warwick, G.T. (1947) Thor’s Cave. Peakland Archaeological Society Newsletter 1: 4-5.
Article Author Graham Mullan