Welcome to Exploring Objects. Here you can explore the rich collection of objects that have been unearthed from the Creswell Heritage Area. To find an object, type in the words that best describe what you are looking for and click ‘Search’
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Antler fragments
Reindeer antler gnawed by spotted hyaenas from Pin Hole.
Last Cold Stage (Middle Devensian) , 50,000 - 35,000 years old.
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Arctic lemming
Lower jaw of arctic lemming from Pin Hole.
Last Ice Age
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Awl
Awl from Pin Hole made on bone from the lower back leg of an arctic hare. Upper Palaeolithic tool, 12,500 years old.
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Beaker Pottery Drawing
Drawing of Late Neolithic / Early Bronze Age decorated pottery Pin Hole. Age of pottery uncertain.
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Brown bear skull
Skull of brown bear from Pin Hole. Middle to late Last Ice Age.
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Cave sequences
Drawing by A.L. Armstrong showing the relationships of deposits in Pin Hole and Mother Grundy's Parlour.
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Cheddar point
Point from Pin Hole made on flint blade. Upper Palaeolithic tool, 12,500 years old.
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Egg shell
Shell from a species of duck from Pin Hole. Age uncertain
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Engraved fragment
Upper Palaeolithic or later decorated object from Pin Hole. Age uncertain. Made on bone
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Engraving of a man
Art object made on rib bone of woolly rhinoceros from Pin Hole. Upper Palaeolithic, age uncertain.
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Excavation finds
Photograph of objects excavated from Pin Hole and Robin Hood Cave in 1875.
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Excavation Photograph
Photograph of A.L. Armstrong and G.A.Garfitt in Pin Hole
soon after 1924.
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Excavation Photograph
Photograph of G.A.Garfitt and an assistant sieving outside Pin Hole in the 1920s.
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Excavation photograph
Photograph by A.L. Armstrong in 1926 of the back leg bone of a wild cow and a flint blade in situ in Pin Hole.
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Gnawed and digested bone fragment
Bison bone from Pin Hole. Last Ice Age.
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Lion jaw
Lower jaw of a lion from Pin Hole gnawed by spotted hyaenas.
Last Ice Age (Middle Devensian), 50,000-38,000 years old.
Bone
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Mammoth foot bone
Bone from Pin Hole. Late last Ice Age, 12,500 years old.
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Mammoth jaw
Upper jaw of a young woolly mammoth from Pin Hole.
Last Ice Age.
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Pin Hole section drawing
Drawing by A.L. Armstrong of the layers in Pin Hole during excavation between 1924-1936.
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Point
Upper Palaeolithic weapon tip from Pin Hole, 12,500 years old. Made from mammoth ivory
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Pollen grains
Pollen from flowering plants extracted from spotted hyaena droppings from Pin Hole. Last Ice Age (Middle Devensian), 50,000-38,000 years old.
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Reindeer antler
Antler from male reindeer from Pin Hole.
Middle Last Ice Age, 37,500 years old.
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Reindeer antler
Antler from female reindeer from Pin Hole.
Middle Last Ice Age, 35,000 years old
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Section drawing
20th century drawing of a section through sediments in Pin Hole drawn by A.L. Armstrong
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Side scraper
Middle Palaeolithic tool from Pin Hole. 40,000 years old.
Made on a flint flake.
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Side scraper
Side scraper from Pin Hole made on a quartzite flake. Middle Palaeolithic tool, 50,000 - 38,000 years old.
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Spotted hyaena skull
Skull of spotted hyaena from Pin Hole. Last Ice Age (Middle Devensian), 40,000-22,000 years old.
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Tanged point
Upper Palaeolithic weapon from Pin Hole. 30,000 - 28,000 years old.
Made on a flint blade
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Wild horse jaw
Lower wild horse jaw from Pin Hole. Last Ice Age (Middle Devensian), 50,000-38,000 years old.
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Woolly rhinoceros jaw
Jaw bone from Pin Hole. Last Ice Age, 50,000-38,000 years old.
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Woolly rhinoceros shoulder blade
Woolly rhinoceros shoulder blade from Pin Hole gnawed by spotted hyaenas. Last Ice Age, 50,000-38,000 years old.
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