NGR: SK 0985 5496
NMR: SK 05 NE 30
SMR: 01959, 05221-3, 40245
SAM: -
DCR: 736
Excavation: G.H. Wilson, 1927-1935.
Curation: Buxton Museum.
Burials: MNI: 6 (4 adults, 2 juveniles).
Finds: Upper Palaeolithic flints, polished stone axe, Late Neolithic, Iron Age and Romano-British pottery, amber beads, bronze artefacts, animal bones.
Date: Unknown (5)
14C: 14C: 20,100bp (BM-1807) on animal bone
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.
Burleigh, R., Ambers, J. & Matthews, K. (1983) British Museum natural radiocarbon measurements XVI. Radiocarbon 25 (1): 39-58.
Papakonstantinou, N. (2009) Human Skeletal Remains from Neolithic Caves in the Peak District: an Osteoarchaeological and Taphonomic Approach. Unpublished MSc dissertation, Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield.
Trent and Peak Archaeological Trust (1993) Manifold Valley, Staffordshire, Cave Survey. Trent and Peak Archaeological Trust and RCHME.
Wilson, G.H. (1937) Cave work in the Manifold Valley. Caves and Caving 1 (2): 61-69.