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A human skull
Skull of boy from Mother Grundy’s Parlour.
Iron Age, 2,000 years old
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Amber
Amber pebble imported to Creswell Crags possibly during the Palaeolithic to Creswell Crags ?Robin Hood Cave. Fossilised tree resin
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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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Arrowheads
Neolithic flint weapon heads from Mother Grundy's Parlour. 4,700-3,700 years old.
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Artefact drawings
20th century drawings of Middle Palaeolithic quartzite artefacts found in A. L.Armstrong’s excavation in Mother Grundy’s Parlour
Paper archive
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Artefact drawings
20th century drawings of Upper Palaeolithic flint tools found by A.L. Armstrong in Mother Grundy’s Parlour
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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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Awls
Awls from Church Hole made on bones from the lower back legs of arctic hare. Upper Palaeolithic tools, 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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Beaver leg bone
Bone from Dog Hole Fissure. Early Post Glacial/Mesolithic, 10,000 years old.
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Bevelled antler point
Upper Palaeolithic weapon tip from Creswell Crags. Specific site uncertain. 12,500 years old. Made from antler.
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Bison leg bone
Lower front leg bone of a bison from Robin Hood Cave.
Last Ice Age (Middle Devensian).
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Brown bear skull
Skull of brown bear from Pin Hole. Middle to late Last Ice Age.
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Burnt bone
Bone fragments blackened by burning from Robin Hood Cave. Age uncertain
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Butchered horse teeth
Upper Palaeolithic food remains from Mother Grundy’s Parlour, 12,000 years old.
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Butchered reindeer bone
Bone from lower back leg of reindeer with cut marks from Creswell Crags, specific site uncertain. Middle Palaeolithic food remains, 60,000 - 40,000 years old
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Cave sediment and hare bones
Arctic hare bones deposited in Ice Age cave deposits from Church Hole. Hare bones 12,000 years old.
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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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Charred hazelnut shell
Mesolithic food remains, 9,000 years old. Nut shells from Marsh Benham, Berkshire. These are similar to nut shells found at Mother Grundy's Parlour, Creswell Crags.
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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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Cheddar Point
Flint blade from Langwith Basset Cave.
Upper Palaeolithic tool, 12,500 years old.
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Cheddar point
Upper Palaeolithic tool from Robin Hood Cave. 12,500 years old. Made of flint
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Chopping tool
Middle Palaeolithic tool from Robin Hood Cave. 60,000 - 40,000 years old. Made on quartzite cobble
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Church Hole drawing
Fieldwork drawings by J.M.Mello and W.B.Dawkins of the entrance and profile of Church Hole. Drawn in 1876.
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Church Hole drawing
Fieldwork drawing by J.M.Mello and W.B.Dawkins in 1876 of the plan to Church Hole.
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Church Hole drawings
Fieldwork drawings of sediment in Church Hole by J.M.Mello and W.B.Dawkins in 1876.
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Core
Flint waste left over from making blades from Creswell Crags, possibly Robin Hood Cave. Late Upper Palaeolithic.
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Core
Mesolithic chert waste from Mother Grundy's Parlour. 9,000-8,500 years old.
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Core
Waste product from blade making from Robin Hood Cave. Upper Palaeolithic about 12,500 years old.
Made of flint.
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Core
Waste product left over from making flakes and blades from Robin Hood Cave. Upper Palaeolithic 12,500 - 11,000 years old. Made on flint
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Creswell Crags plan
Plan of the Creswell gorge by A.L. Armstrong in 1921.
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Creswell Crags plan
Plan of the Creswell gorge by A.L. Armstrong in 1921.
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Creswell point
Flint point from Robin Hood Cave. Upper Palaeolithic tool, 12,500 years old.
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Creswellian tools
Upper Palaeolithic tools from Robin Hood Cave, 12,600 - 12,300 years old. Made on flint blades.
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Cut marked bone
Tool marks made on bone from a large mammal from Mother Grundy’s Parlour. Age unknown
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Cut marked hare bone
Late Upper Palaeolithic food remains from Robin Hood Cave, 12,300 years old.
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Discoidal core
Waste product from making flakes from Church Hole.
Middle Palaeolithic, 60,000 - 40,000 years old.
Made on quartzite cobble
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Drawn pieces of bone
20th century drawings of marked bones from A. L. Armstrong’s excavation in Mother Grundy’s Parlour.
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Egg shell
Shell from a species of duck from Pin Hole. Age uncertain
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Endscraper-burin
Upper Palaeolithic dual purpose flint tool from Langwith Basset Cave, 12,500 years old
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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 west entrance taken during 1876 excavation at Robin Hood Cave
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Excavation photograph
Photograph of entrance of Church Hole taken in 1876.
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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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Excavation Photograph
Photograph of A.L. Armstrong and G.A.Garfitt outside Mother Grundy's Parlour
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Excavation Photograph
Photograph of A.L. Armstrong and G.A.Garfitt excavating between Pin Hole and Dog Hole, taken before 1925.
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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 excavations by A.L. Armstrong at the entrance to Mother Grundy's Parlour. Photograph published in 1925.
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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 Photographs
Photograph of the excavation by the Hunter Archaeological Society in 1960 at Ash Tree Cave
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Flake knives
Flake knives made on quartzite flakes from Robin Hood Cave. Middle Palaeolithic tools, 60,000 - 40,000 years old.
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Flake knives
Quartzite flakes from Robin Hood Cave. Middle Palaeolithic tools, 60,000-40,000 years old.
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Flaked cobble
Possible Middle Palaeolithic tool from Ash Tree Cave. Made of quartzite
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Flaked cobbles
Flaked cobbles made on quartzite from Robin Hood Cave. Middle Palaeolithic artefacts, 60,000 - 40,000 years old.
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Giant deer jaw bone
Bone jaw from Church Hole. End of last Ice Age/early Post Glacial.
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Gnawed and digested bone fragment
Bison bone from Pin Hole. Last Ice Age.
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Handaxe
Middle Palaeolithic tool from Robin Hood Cave, 60,000 - 40,000 years old. Made of clay-ironstone
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Handaxe
Middle Palaeolithic flint tool from Robin Hood Cave. 60,000 - 40,000 years old.
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Hippopotamus teeth
Hippopotamus upper tooth rows from Mother Grundy's Parlour. Last Interglacial, 130,000-110,000 years old
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Horn and skull fragment
Horn core and skull from Steetley quarry. Middle Last Cold Stage, 74,000 - 60,000 years old
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Horse engraving
Horse engraved on rib bone from Robin Hood Cave.
Upper Palaeolithic art object, 12,500 years old.
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Human skull fragment
Bone from Robin Hood Cave. Neolithic, 5,000 years old.
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Knife blades
Late Upper Palaeolithic flint blades from Dead Man's Cave. About 12,000 years old.
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Leaf-shaped point
Middle/Upper Palaeolithic weapon tip from Robin Hood Cave. 40,000 - 30,000 years old. Made of flint.
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Leaf-shaped point
Middle/Upper Palaeolithic weapon tip from Robin Hood Cave, 40,000-30,000 years old. Made of flint
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Leaf-shaped point (broken)
Middle/Upper Palaeolithic spear tip from Robin Hood Cave. 40,000 - 30,000 years old. Made of flint
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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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Lion tooth
Canine from Robin Hood Cave. Last Ice Age (Middle Devensian).
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Lynx upper jaw
Upper jaw bone from Dog Hole Fissure.
Early Post Glacial/ Mesolithic, 10,000 years old.
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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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Marrow probes
Marrow probes from Church Hole made from reindeer antler. Upper Palaeolithic tools, 12,000 years old.
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Mesolithic artefacts
Later Mesolithic waste material from making tools collected from a field close to Elmton Village, Derbyshire. 8,800-5,400 years old. Made of chert.
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Mother Grundy’s Parlour plan
Plan of Mother Grundy's Parlour plan by A.L. Armstrong showing excavation areas.
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Narrow-nosed rhinoceros jaw
Lower jaw of a young narrow-nosed rhinoceros from Mother Grundy's Parlour. Last Interglacial, 130,000-110,000 years old.
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Needle
Needle from Church Hole made of bone. Upper Palaeolithic tool, 12,000 years old.
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Notched bone
Upper Palaeolithic tool or ornament from Church Hole. Made on bone. 12,000 years old
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Photograph of a woman’s skull
Photograph of an Early Bronze Age skull of a woman from Whaley Rock Shelter Nº2. 3,500 years old.
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Photograph of human jaw
Early Bronze Age jaw from a cave burial from Ash Tree Cave, 3,700 years old.
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Pika jaw
Jaw bone from Robin Hood Cave. 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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Points and scrapers
Upper Palaeolithic weapon tips and tools from Mother Grundy's Parlour, 12,000 - 11,000 years old. Made on flint.
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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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Post card
Notes by Wilfrid Jackson on a post card describing totals of excavated bone, age unknown.
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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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Reindeer toe bone
Bone from Dead Man’s Cave. End of last Ice Age, 10,000 years old.
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Robin Hood Cave drawings
Fieldwork drawings of sediments in Robin Hood Cave by J.M.Mello and W.B.Dawkins in 1876.
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Robin Hood Cave drawings
Fieldwork drawings by J.M.Mello and W.B.Dawkins at Robin Hood Cave in 1876 in the western chamber.
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Scimitar cat tooth
Possible Upper Palaeolithic pendant from Robin Hood Cave. Age uncertain.
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Section drawing
20th century drawing of sediments shown in section from A.L. Armstrong’s excavation in Mother Grundy’s Parlour
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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
Middle Palaeolithic tool from Robin Hood Cave. 60,000 - 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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Small blades and a scraper
Mesolithic flint tools from Mother Grundy's Parlour. 9,000-8,500 years old.
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Spotted hyaena droppings
Fossilised dung from Creswell Crags, Mother Grundy’s Parlour. Last Ice Age, 40,000 - 22,000 years old.
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Spotted hyaena jaws
Jaw bones from Church Hole and Robin Hood Cave.
Last Ice Age, 40,000 - 22,000 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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Trimming flakes
Middle Palaeolithic waste material from sharpening a handaxe from Ash Tree Cave. 60,000-40,000 years old.
Made of clay-ironstone
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Weapon fragment embedded in piece of animal rib
Mesolithic weapon tip broken off in bone of wounded animal from Mother Grundy’s Parlour. 9,000 years old.
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Wild boar jaw
Fragment of upper jaw from Dog Hole Fissure.
Early Post Glacial/Mesolithic, 10,000 years old
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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 leg bone
Bone from lower part of front leg of woolly rhinoceros from Church Hole. Middle Last Ice Age.
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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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