| Summary : A small rock shelter, one of four in the Scarcliffe area excavated by Leslie Armstrong and A Court in the 1950s. The results have never been published and the whereabouts of the finds and archive is unknown. However, in an unpublished MA thesis, it was suggested that Roman and Palaeolithic "levels" were found. This information was apparently based on an oral account by Court. The Roman occupation is apparently "certain", as many sherds continue to be found in the vicinity of the Scarcliffe Shelters. The Palaeolithic evidence is more problematic. In his gazetteer of Creswell Crags caves and shelters, Jenkinson refers to Armstrong and Courts' habit of associating flint implements of any type with Palaeolithic occupation. This was not a problem confined to the caves of the Creswell Crags region. Armstrong spent 25 years at Grimes Graves (TL 88 NW 4) attempting to prove that the flint mining there was Palaeolithic rather than Neolithic. |