Windy Knoll Fissure
Excavation
R. Pennington, J. Tym & W.B. Dawkins, 1870-1876.
Curation
Buxton Museum; Bolton Museum; Derby Museum; Cambridge; British Museum, London; Sheffield City Museum.
Burials
MNI: 1+
Finds
Animal bones.
Dates
| Period | Reliability |
|---|---|
| Unknown | No reliable dating information available |
14C
37,300 bp (OxA-4579) on bison bone.
External References
| Derbyshire Cave Registry | 41 |
| National Monuments Record | SK 18 SW 33 |
| Sites and Monument Record | 3304 |
Bibliography
Barker, I. & Beck, J.S. (2010) Caves of the Peak District. Hucklow Publishing, Derbyshire.
Cordingley, J. (1978) Potential at Windy Knoll, Castleton, Derbyshire. Sheffield University Speleological Society Journal 2 (6): 44.
Dawkins, W.B. (1875) The mammalia found at Windy Knoll. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 31: 246-255.
Dawkins, W.B. (1877) The exploration of the ossiferous deposit at Windy Knoll, Castleton, Derbyshire, by Rooke Pennington and Prof. Boyd Dawkins. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Society of London 33: 724-729.
Heath, T. (1882) Pleistocene deposits in Derbyshire and its immediate vicinity. Derbyshire Archaeological Journal 4: 161-178.
Hedges, R.E.M. et al. (1996) Radiocarbon dates from the Oxford AMS system. Archaeometry datelist 22. Archaeometry 38: 391-415.
Pennington, R. (1875) On the bone caves in the neighbourhood of Castleton, Derbyshire. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 31: 238-245.
Pennington, R. (1877) Notes on the Barrows and Bone-Caves of Derbyshire. With an Account of a Descent into Eldon Hole. London, Macmillan.
Article Author Graham Mullan