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Creswell Crags Gorge contains a series of caves and rock shelters in Nottinghamshire that preserve important evidence of human occupation spanning from the Middle Palaeolithic through to the Bronze Age. Pinhole Cave, Mother Grundy's Parlour, and Robin Hood's Cave are among the principal sites within the gorge, with Pinhole Cave yielding particularly significant Palaeolithic deposits including artefacts and faunal remains dating to approximately 40,000 years ago. The caves were occupied intermittently during the Late Glacial period and subsequent Mesolithic phases, with later Neolithic and Bronze Age activity also attested. The limestone gorge itself, cut by a small watercourse, provided natural shelters that attracted successive populations of hunter-gatherers and their descendants, making Creswell Crags an invaluable archive of human adaptation and settlement patterns across the Pleistocene and Holocene periods.
Palaeolithic and later prehistoric sites at Creswell Gorge including Pinhole Cave, Mother Grundy's Parlour and Robin Hood's Cave See also NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 183 is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1003770. View the official record →
Creswell Crags Gorge contains a series of caves and rock shelters in Nottinghamshire that preserve important evidence of human occupation spanning from the Middle Palaeolithic through to the Bronze Age. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1003770.
Palaeolithic and later prehistoric sites at Creswell Gorge including Pinhole Cave, Mother Grundy's Parlour and Robin Hood's Cave See also NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 183 is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1003770.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Palaeolithic and later prehistoric sites at Creswell Gorge, including Boat House Cave and Church Hole Cave See also DERBYSHIRE 275 (0.1 km), Bowl barrow, 240m SSE of Woodend Farm (2.6 km), Markland Grips promontory fort (2.7 km).
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Research the area around Palaeolithic and later prehistoric sites at Creswell Gorge including Pinhole Cave, Mother Grundy's Parlour and Robin Hood's Cave See also NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 183