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• animal remains
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• flint
• human remains
• mineral
• pottery
• replica
• tool/implement
• tooth
• travertine
• vessel

Keywords

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• animal remains
• antler
• bat
• body sherd
• bone
• bone and tooth
• bone fragment
• bone tooth
• bones
• cast
• ceramics
• charcoal
• chip
• crocuta or ursus
• egg fragments
• engraving
• equus/ ursus/hyena
• flake
• flint
• flint point
• flint waste flake
• flintburnt item possibly chert
• fractured pebble
• fragment
• handaxe
• human frontal
• human remains
• human skull
• human vertebrae
• immature lower mandible
• lepus
• mandible
• maxillary
• microfauna
• microtine
• mineral
• nodule
• occiptal
• pebble
• pebbles
• plaster of paris
• point
• pot
• pottery
• processed material
• quartzite
• rangefor
• replica
• rib
• river survey
• scales
• sediment
• shard
• shell
• shell and bone
• silica
• stone
• teeth
• tool / implement
• tool / implement (?)
• tool/implement
• tooth
• tooth (canine)
• tooth bone
• tooth bones
• tooth fragment
• travertine
• vessel

Classification

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• teeth
• teeth, bone
• (1 x rt mandible 1 x lt mandible matching) plus 1 x rt mandible
• (d) canine
• 1 asellus meridianus
• 1 baetis rhodani
• 1 brachycentrae (cased caddis)
• 1 chironimidae sp.
• 1 distal foetal tibia epiphysis, 1 vertebra epiphysis
• 1 distal humerus rt fragment, 2 humerus shaft fragments
• 1 distal radius
• 1 erpobdella octoculata
• 1 gammarus sp.
• 1 glossiphonia complanata
• 1 helobdella stagnalis
• 1 hydropsyche angustipennis
• 1 leptoceridae
• 1 leptoceridae (cased caddis)
• 1 limnaea pereger
• 1 lumbricidae
• 1 lymnaea peregra
• 1 polycentropidae
• 1 rhyacophila dorsalis
• 1 rib and 1 shaft both burnt
• 1 simulium sp.
• 1 tabanus sp. dipteran larva
• 1 theromyzon tessulatum
• 1 tubifex sp.
• 1 tubiflex sp.
• 1 x base cranium
• 1 x bone fragment
• 1 x cranial frag
• 1 x cranial fragment
• 1 x cranium and 1 x maxillary
• 1 x cranium fragment
• 1 x distal femur
• 1 x distal humerus
• 1 x distal humerus, unfused
• 1 x distal metacarp
• 1 x distal metatarsal unfused
• 1 x distal metatarsal unfused 1 x metacarpal
• 1 x distal radius
• 1 x distal rt femur
• 1 x foetal distal humerus
• 1 x foetal humerus
• 1 x foetal rib, 1 x rib, 1 x thyroid, 1 x foetal vertebra
• 1 x foetal rt scapula
• 1 x foetal ulna
• 1 x fragment 3 x cranial fragments all v.burnt, 1 x shaft fragment
• 1 x gastropoda
• 1 x humerus
• 1 x humerus v.eroded
• 1 x incisor
• 1 x indeterminate bone
• 1 x indeterminate flake
• 1 x indeterminate rib
• 1 x indeterminate skull fragment
• 1 x indeterminate vertebra
• 1 x indeterminate vertebra
• 1 x indeterminate vertebra fragment
• 1 x indeterminate, 1 x pelvis fragment, 2 x vertebra, 7 x rib
• 1 x juvenile distal humerus 1 x distal tibia
• 1 x juvenile pelvic fragment
• 1 x juvenile phalange
• 1 x juvenile tibia
• 1 x lower tooth
• 1 x lt femur
• 1 x lt humerus
• 1 x lt ilium
• 1 x lt pelvis 1 x rt mandible 1 x rt pelvis
• 1 x lt pelvis 1 x rt pelvis
• 1 x lt ramus fragment
• 1 x lt tibia proximal
• 1 x lt ulna fragment
• 1 x metacarp
• 1 x metapodial
• 1 x metatars fragment
• 1 x metatarsal
• 1 x pelvic fragment
• 1 x phalange
• 1 x phalange 1 x juvenile rt femur
• 1 x pm
• 1 x radius
• 1 x radius 1 x lt humerus 1 x lt ulna
• 1 x radius fragment
• 1 x radius fragment and 1 x juvenile pelvic fragment
• 1 x radius juvenile
• 1 x radius shaft
• 1 x rib
• 1 x rib fragment
• 1 x rt ?
• 1 x rt basic cranial fragment
• 1 x rt calcaneum and 1 x ramus fragment
• 1 x rt humerus proximal unfused
• 1 x rt maxilla pm1, pm2, pm3
• 1 x rt ulna 1 x lt ulna
• 1 x scapula 1 x tibia
• 1 x shaft fragment
• 1 x skull fragment
• 1 x tibia
• 1 x tibia shaft eroded and grooved
• 1 x tooth
• 1 x ulna
• 1 x vertebra
• 1 x vertebra
• 1 x vertebra fragment
• 100+ simulium
• 11 asellus aquaticus
• 12 helodes sp.
• 12 simolium sp.
• 14 erpobdella oculata
• 14 simulium
• 16 erdobdella oculata
• 16 gammaros sp.
• 18 baetis rhodania
• 1st metacarpal
• 1st phalange
• 2 asellus aquaticus
• 2 chironimidae
• 2 chironimidae sp.
• 2 chloroperla torrentium
• 2 gammarus sp.
• 2 helobdella stagnalis
• 2 rib fragments, 1 femur fragment of unidentified animals
• 2 simulium
• 2 triclads (1 dendrocoelum lactem, 1 sp. unknown)
• 2 tubifex sp.
• 2 x lt humerus (1 foetal)
• 2 x radius (1 juvenile)
• 2 x rt femur and 1 lt femur
• 20 spaniotoma sp.
• 28 asellus aquaticus
• 2nd phalange
• 3 + 4 metacarpal
• 3 asellus meridianus
• 3 dendrocoelum lacteum
• 3 erpobdella octoculata
• 3 erpobdella oculata
• 3 gammerus sp.
• 3 limnocharidae
• 3 pisidium sp.
• 3 x rt and 3 x lt pelvis, 6 x humerus, 3 x shaft, 2 x radiocub, 2 x wostyle, 3 x vertebra, 3 x scapula, 18 x shaft fragments, 2 x cranial fragments
• 32 baetis rhodani
• 36 erpobdella oculata
• 4 asellus aquaticus
• 4 hydropsyche angustidennis
• 4 long bones fragments, 1 scapula fragment
• 5 erpobdella oculata
• 5 hydropsyche angustipennis
• 5 spaniotoma sp. 2 chironomus sp.
• 6 limnocharidae
• 6 odon toceridae leptoceridae sericostomatidae (2 of above families)
• 7 asellus aquaticus
• 7 simulium sp.
• 7 spaniotoma sp.
• 7 tabanus sp.
• 83 baetis rhodani
• 9 asellus aquaticus
• 9 chironomidae
• 9 gammerus sp.
• 92 simulium sp.
• 93 gammarus sp.
• a genus of mammals
• accipiter gentilis
• aegolius funereus
• alauda arvensis
• alpine spices
• an order of hooved mammals
• anas platyrhynchas
• anas platyrhynchos
• anatidae
• anklebone
• anser anser
• antler fragments
• anus platyrhynchas
• aquila chrysaetus
• aquila species, indeterminate species
• ardea cinerea
• arrowhead
• artiodactyla sp.
• astragalus
• astragalus
• atlas
• atlas vertebra
• auroch
• auroch / cow
• auroch/cow
• aves
• aves sp.
• aves species
• awl
• axial vertebra
• axial vertebrae
• axis vertebra
• back bone
• back-bone
• backed
• backed tool
• baculum
• badger
• barbastellus
• barn owl
• basio-occipital
• bat species
• beam and brow tine
• bear
• bear?
• bird
• bird species
• bird species, unidentified species
• bison
• bison
• bison (?)
• bison?
• black grouse
• blackbird
• blade
• blades
• bombycilla garrulus
• bone
• bone between finger and toe joints
• bone flake
• bone fragment
• bone point
• bone shaft
• bone splinter
• bone, antler
• bone, tooth
• bos
• bos primigenius
• bos species
• bos species and indeterminate species
• bovid species
• bovidae
• bovidae species
• bovidea
• bovine
• bovine species
• brown bear
• brown rat
• bullfinch
• buteo buteo
• calandrella cinerea
• calcaneum
• canine
• canine tooth
• canis
• canis lupis
• canis lupus
• capreolus capreolus
• carnivora
• carnivore
• carpel meta carpel, distal
• cave hyaena
• cave hyeana
• cave hyena
• cave hyena?
• centrum
• cervid (?)
• cervid / ovis
• cervidae
• cervidae species
• cervidae species, indeterminate species
• cervus elephas
• cevus elaphus
• chaffinch
• chiroptera species
• cinclus cinclus
• class of birds
• coccothraustes coccothraustes
• coccyx
• coelodonta antiquitatis
• coelodonta antiquitatis (?)
• coelondonta
• columba oenas
• columba palumbus
• common buzzard
• common scoter
• cones sp.
• coracoid
• corcoid
• corcuta crocuta
• core
• cormorant
• corvus corax
• corvus monedula
• corvus monedula or nucifraga caryocatactes
• cow species
• cow species and unidentified species
• crag martin
• crania
• crania fragment
• cranial fragment
• cranial fragment
• cranium
• cranium fragment
• cranium fragment and lt premaxilla
• creswell point
• crocuta
• crocuta crocuta
• crocuta crocuta?
• crocuta, crocuta
• crossbill
• crossbill species
• crucuta
• cuneiform tarsal
• cuniculus
• deer (?)
• deer / sheep
• deer species
• deer: reindeer; moose or elks; muntjacs; roe deer
• demoniselle crane
• derbyshire were
• dipper
• distal calcaneum
• distal femur shaft fractured
• distal fibia
• distal humerus
• distal humerus fragment
• distal left femur
• distal metacarpal
• distal radius
• distal radius fragment
• distal rt femur
• domestic cow
• domestic dog/wolf
• domestic or wild dog
• duck species
• dunnock
• ear bone
• edible mussel
• edwing
• egg shell fragments
• elbow
• end scraper
• epiphysis
• epiphysis of femur
• equus
• equus ferus ferus
• equus sp.
• equus species
• equus?
• eroded
• european hare
• european mole
• falco columbarius
• falco tinnunculus
• feline species
• felis
• felis aries
• felis lynx
• felis species
• femer
• femur
• femur shaft
• femur, shaft unfused, juvenile, fractured
• fibula
• fieldfare
• fish
• flake
• flakes
• foetal acetabulum
• foetal crania fragment
• foetal humerus
• foetal humerus and rt humerus
• foetal mandible
• foetal right lower mandible
• foetal scapula
• foetal tibia
• forelimb
• fox (?)
• fractured metacarpus
• fractured, unfused, juvenile femur shaft
• fragment
• fragment of cave hyena scapula
• fragment of reindeer ramus
• fragment, proximal end
• fragments
• fratercula artica
• fringella coelebs
• fringgella coelebs
• frog
• frog / toad
• frog or toad species
• frog or toad, birds, unidentified species
• frog or toad, fish, bird
• frog or toad, unidentified bones
• frog species
• frog/toad
• frontal right tibia
• furcula
• gallinago gallinago
• gastropoda
• giant deer
• gnawed
• golden eagle
• goosander
• goshawk
• grayling
• grey heron
• grey phararope
• grey plover
• greylag goose
• grouse
• grouse species
• haliaetus albicilla
• handaxe
• hare
• hare species
• hawfinch
• hippopotamus
• hippopotamus amphibius
• hirundo rustica
• homo sapiens
• horn core
• horn core fragment
• horse
• horse
• horse family
• horse genus
• horse species
• human
• humerus
• humerus
• humerus ephiphysis
• humerus fragment
• humerus juv and radius eroded
• humerus shaft
• humerus shaft
• humerus shaft fragment
• humerus, fractured, proximal, unfused, juvenile
• humerus, left, whole shaft with head
• humerus, proximal, unfused, juvenile, fractured
• humerus, unfused
• hyena
• ilium
• illium fragment
• incisor
• indet
• indeteminate species
• indeterinate
• indetermiate
• indeterminable
• indeterminate
• indeterminate frontal fragment
• indeterminate species
• indeterminate species
• indeterminate species, crocuta crocuta, rangifer tarandus
• insisor and fragment
• jackdaw
• jackdaw or nutcracker
• jaw bone
• juvenile atlas
• juvenile mandible
• juvenile metacarpal
• juvenile pelvis
• juvenile radius
• juvenile right femur
• juvenile tibia
• juvenile tibia, fractured
• kestrel
• knee cap
• lagomorpha
• lagopus lagopus
• lagopus lapogus
• lagopus mutus
• lagopus species
• lance head
• lapogus lapogus
• lapogus lapogus or tetrao tetrix
• lapwing
• laurel leaf
• laurel leaf point
• left c.m.c. adult
• left c.m.c. juvenile
• left c.m.c. length 23.6 mm adult
• left calcaneum
• left canine
• left coracoid
• left coracoid
• left coracoid adult
• left coracoid distal end, adult
• left coracoid, adult
• left distal humerus & shaft
• left distal ulna
• left femur
• left femur, fractured
• left frontal
• left frontal acetabulum
• left humerus
• left humerus adult
• left humerus juvenile
• left humerus, adult
• left ilium
• left illium
• left jaw
• left lower canine
• left lower mandible
• left m2
• left mandible
• left mandible pm3, m1, m2
• left mandible, fractured
• left mandible, juvenile
• left maxilla
• left maxillary
• left maxilliary
• left parietal unfused
• left pelvis
• left premaxilla
• left scapula
• left scapula adult
• left scapula, fractured
• left squamosal
• left t.m.t. adult
• left tarsomemetatarsus adult
• left tarsometatarsus adult
• left tarsometatarsus juvenile
• left tarsometatarsus, adult
• left tibia
• left tibia - tarsus, adult
• left tibia-tarsus, adult
• left ulna
• left ulna adult
• left ulna, adult
• lepos europaeus
• lepus
• lepus europaeus
• lepus europeaeus
• lepus species
• lepus timidus
• lepus?
• lesser horseshoe bat
• limb bones and scapula(?)
• limb fragment
• limb fragments
• limb shaft
• long bone (?)
• lower beak
• lower beak adult
• lower beak, adult
• lower mandible, right dentition present, plus 2 fragments
• lower right mandible plus 3 fragments
• lower right mandible with dentition
• lower tooth, m3 right upper
• loxia curvirostra
• lt cranium
• lt cranium and orbital fragment
• lt cranium and rt cranium (matched)
• lt femur
• lt femur (unfused)
• lt femur juvenile
• lt femur unfused
• lt foetal maxillary and one unerupted tooth
• lt humerus
• lt humerus shaft
• lt m2
• lt mandible
• lt mandible m1, m2, m3
• lt mandible m2 v.burnt
• lt mandible pm1, pm2, pm3
• lt mandible pm2, pm3, pm4 m1, m2
• lt mandible v.young l2, l3, c, dm2, dm3
• lt mandibles
• lt maxilla pm2, pm3, m1
• lt maxillary pm1, pm2, pm3, m1
• lt orbital fragment
• lt p2, lt m3, lt l2
• lt pelvis
• lt premaxilla
• lt proximal femur
• lt scapula
• lt scapula fragment
• lt tibia
• lt tibia unfused
• lt ulna
• lullula arborea
• lumbar vertebra
• lynx
• mallard
• mamallia species
• mammal species
• mammal, bird
• mammalia species
• mammalia, aves
• mammuthus primigenius
• mandible
• mandible / beak
• mandible adult
• mandible fragment
• mandible, two unidentified bones
• mandibles
• mandibula
• maxilla fragment
• maxillary
• maxillary fragment
• maxilliary fragment
• megaloceros giganteus
• melanitta
• melanitta nigra
• meles m
• meles meles
• mergus meranser
• merlin
• metacarp
• metacarp shaft
• metacarpal
• metacarpal shaft
• metacarpus fragment
• metapodial
• metapodial
• metapodial flake, 1st phalange
• metapodial fragment
• metapodiale
• metatarsal
• metatarsos
• metatarsus
• microfauna
• microfauna, splinters
• microtinae species
• microtine species
• microtus oeconomicus
• microtus speices
• mistle thrush
• modern bird
• molar
• molar, misc., incisor
• molars
• mollusca
• montacilla species
• mountain / brown hare
• mountain hare
• mountain/brown hare
• mustela species
• mustelidae
• myotis mystacinus
• myotis nattereri
• mytilus
• nasal
• natterers bat
• neural spine
• nodule
• northern lynx
• occipital bone
• oenanthe oenanthe
• one rim shard, one shard
• orbit
• ornithology, the class of birds
• oryctolagus cuniculus
• oryctologus cuniculus
• ossified end of long bone
• ovis
• ovis aries
• ovis species
• ovis?
• partial epiphysis
• partridge
• passer montanus
• passeriform
• patella
• pelvic fragments
• pelvis
• pelvis fragment
• pen knife point
• perdix perdix
• perisoreeus infaustus
• phalacrocorax carbo
• phalange
• phalange v.eroded
• phalaropus fulicaria
• phoenicurus phoeni curus
• phoenicurus phoenicurus
• pied wagtail
• pig species
• pine grosbeak
• pinicola enucleator
• pluvialis squatarola
• point
• pomerome skua ?
• posterior shaft, fragment of left humerus
• posturior surface of metatarsal
• pre molar
• premaxilla
• premaxilla and occipital ridge
• premaxilla fragment
• premaxilla, fractured
• premaxillary, fractured
• prox left metatarsal
• proximal humerus
• proximal tarsus (see note)
• proximal tibia
• proximal tibia eroded and grooved
• prunella modularis
• przewalski's horse
• ptarmigan
• ptyonoprogne rupestris
• puffin
• pyrrhula pyrrhula
• quartzite
• rabbit
• rabbit / hare / pika
• radio cubitus
• radiocubitos
• radiocubitus fragment
• radiocubitus shaft
• radius
• radius eroded
• radius proximal, adult
• radius shaft
• radius, fractured, juvenile
• ramus
• ramus fragment
• rana
• rana sp.
• rana species
• rana species, aves, indeterminate species
• rana species, indeterminate species
• rana species, pisces, aves
• rangifer tarandus
• rangifer tarandus, indeterminate species
• rattus norvegicus
• rattus norvegius
• raven
• red
• red deer
• red fox
• red grouse
• red squirrel
• redstart
• redwing
• reindeer
• retouched
• rhinolophus hiposideros
• rhinolophus hipposideros
• rib
• rib bones
• rib fragment
• rib segment
• ribs
• right humerus juvenile
• right ulna adult
• right astragalus
• right calcaneum
• right caracoid
• right coracoid
• right coracoid adult
• right distal humerus
• right femoral shaft
• right femur
• right femur 36.6 mm
• right femur adult
• right femur juvenile
• right femur prox adult
• right foetal mandible
• right frontal
• right humerus
• right humerus adult
• right humerus adult fragment
• right humerus juvenile
• right humerus, adult
• right humerus, distal, adult
• right humerus, proxial, adult
• right ilium
• right illium fragment
• right innominate
• right jaw
• right lower mandible
• right lower molar m3
• right mandible
• right mandible fragment
• right mandible, foetal
• right mandible, juvenile
• right maxilla
• right maxillary
• right molar
• right p_4
• right p4
• right pelvis
• right scapula
• right scapulae
• right squamosal
• right t.m.t. adult
• right tarsometatarsus adult
• right tarsometatarsus, adult
• right tarsometatarsus, distal
• right tarsometatarsus, juvenile
• right tarsusmetatarsus, adult
• right tibia
• right tibia - tarsus adult
• right tibia - tarsus juvenile
• right tibia-tarsus
• right ulna
• right ulna adult
• right upper molar
• ring ouzel
• river survey
• rodent species
• rodentia species
• roe deer
• root vole
• rt femur
• rt femur and rt pelvis
• rt femur epiphysis
• rt femur juvenile
• rt half half skull
• rt humerus
• rt mandible
• rt mandible pm1, pm2
• rt mandible v.young
• rt maxilla dm1, dm2 v.young
• rt maxilla m2, m3
• rt maxillary
• rt maxillary pm2, pm3
• rt pelvis
• rt pelvis and rt tibia
• rt pelvis fragment
• rt pm4
• rt premaxilla dm3
• rt radius
• rt scapula
• rt tibia
• rt tibia, distally deformed
• rt ulma
• rt ulna
• ruddy shelduck
• scapula
• scapula fragment
• sciuridae species
• sciurus species
• sciurus vulgaris
• scoter
• scraper
• scuridae species
• shaft
• shaft & distal humerus
• shaft flake
• shaft fragment
• shaft fragment
• shaft fragments
• sheep
• sheep (?)
• sheep / goat
• sheep species
• shelduck
• short toed lark
• siberian jay
• side scraper
• skull
• skull fragment
• skull fragment (mandible)
• skull fragment, mandible
• skull fragments
• skylark
• small bones
• snail
• snipe
• snow finch
• song bird
• song thrush
• spatulate end (?)
• species indeterminate
• splinter
• spotted hyena
• squamosal
• squirrel species
• stalactite
• starling
• stercorarius species
• sternum
• stoat / weasel / polecat
• stock dove
• sturnus vulgaris
• sus scrofa
• sus scrofa (?)
• sus species
• swallow
• synsacrum, anterior half
• tadorna ferruginea
• talpa europaea
• tarsal
• tarsometatarsus
• tengmalm's owl
• tetrao species
• tetrao species
• tetrao tetrix
• thoracic vertebra
• thymallus
• thyroid
• tibia
• tibia - tarsus
• tibia - tarsus adult
• tibia (?)
• tibia and fibula
• tibia shaft
• tibia shaft distal unfused
• tibia shaft fragment
• tibia tarsus adult
• tibia, unfused
• tibias, ulnas, scapulas, femur, shafts, metatarsal, phalange, unidentified bones
• tiny bones
• tool / implement (?)
• tooth
• tooth (canine)
• tooth lt pm4
• tree sparrow
• tubifex sp.
• turdinae
• turdus iliacus
• turdus merula
• turdus philomelos
• turdus pilaris
• turdus torquatus
• turdus viscivorus
• tyto alba
• ulna
• ulna proximal
• unidentified bones
• unidentified limb
• unidentified species
• unidentified species, cave hyena, reindeer
• unknown
• upper beak
• upper beak / adult
• upper beak and skull fragment
• ursus arctos
• ursus arctus
• ursus?
• vanellus vanellus
• various species
• vertebra
• vertebra
• vertebra fragment
• vertebrae
• vertebrae (axis)
• vertebrae (spines missing)
• vertebral disc
• vertibrae
• very dark grey colour
• vole species
• vole speices
• vulpes vulpes
• vulpus
• vulpus vulpus
• warbler
• waste
• waxwing
• wheatear
• whiskered bat
• white tailed eagle
• whoolly rhinoceros
• whoolly rhinoceros (?)
• wild cat
• wild cat, cave lion, leopard, lynx
• wild pig
• wild pig (?)
• wild pig species
• wolf
• wood pigeon
• woodlark
• woolly mammoth
• woolly rhinoceros
• woolly rhinoceros
• zygomatic arch

Period

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• iron age
• mesolithic
• neolithic
• palaeolithic

Material

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• artefact
• artefact / ecofact
• bone
• ecofact
• ecofact (artefact ? "a feature not normally present, but visible as a result of an external agent")
• peocessed material
• plaster of paris
• replica

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• Derbyshire
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• Holbeck
• Rainworth
• Shireoaks
• Whitwell

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• Ash Tree Gorge
• Creswell Crags
• Millwood Brook, Creswell
• Rainworth Water
• River Maun
• Robin Hood's Cave
• Steetley Quarry
• Steetly Quarry

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• Ash Tree Gorge
• Creswell Crags
• Millwood Brook, Creswell
• Rainworth Water
• River Maun
• Robin Hood's Cave
• Steetley Quarry
• Steetly Quarry