Ravenclife Cave |
Hob Uid: 309125 | |
Location : Derbyshire Derbyshire Dales Great Longstone
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Grid Ref : SK1740073560 |
Summary : A cave located on the eastern side of Cressbrook Dale. It was explored between 1902 and 1906, and again between 1927 and 1929. In both instances the published reports are rather lacking in detail. Items recovered from the cave include "an isolated scraper of uncertain affinity" (Campbell), but regarded as Upper Palaeolithic; Neolithic polished stone axes, a leaf arrowhead, scrapers and sherds of Peterborough Ware; Beaker sherds; two strips of ribbed gold, possibly representing some kind of ornament (bracelets?) of Bronze Age date; collared urn sherds; Iron Age pottery; Roman pottery, glass beads, bronze brooches, stone hones and shale beads. A bronze awl and some bone items including a ring are probably later prehistoric in date. One glass bead may be Saxon. Human and animal remains were also recovered. The former are generally regarded as later prehistoric in date. The latter may cover all periods from the Palaeolithic to the Roman period. |
More information : [SK 17377366] (1) Ravenscliffe Cave overlooking Ravendale Cottages, on the east side of Cressbrook Dale was explored from 1902 onwards, the finds incluidng a side-scraper of Mousterian type (2), two Neolithic stone axes, Peterborough, Rusticated, Overhanging Rim Urn & Early Iron Age pottery, two E.B.A. gold bands, (3) and R.B. 'Derbyshire' ware dated by brooches to the latter part of the 2nd century. (1-5) A very large cave,the entrance situated at SK 17407356. (6) Bronze Age pottery from Ravencliffe cave (SK 17377366) is listed by Challis and Harding. (7) Additional references. (8-10)
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