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Creswell Crags (deserted settlement) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 53 15 39 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 53.2612 decimal degrees |
| Long: 001 11 49 E degrees minutes |
Long: 1.1979 decimal degrees |
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Note: Cave dwellings located at a limestone gorge, in cliffs in the ravine. Several caves containing evidence of Neanderthal occupation 50,000-60,000 years ago. They were then occupied during the last ice age, 43,000-10,000 years ago. Occupation layers contain evidence of flint tools from the Mousterian, proto-Solutrean, Creswellian and Maglemosian cultures; were seasonally occupied by nomadic groups of people during the Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods. Evidence of Neolithic, Bronze Age, Roman and post-medieval activity has also been found there. A brief Gravettian occupation dates to around 32,000 years ago; all the main caves were used during the Magdalenian around 14,000 years ago. |
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| Creswell Crags (preferred,C,V)
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| Cresswell Crags (C,V)
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| Creswell Crags Caves (C,V)
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| deserted settlement (preferred, C) |
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frequented by early man |
| archaeological site (C) |
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| inhabited place (H) |
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| cave dwelling (H) |
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| seasonally inhabited place (H) |
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| Neanderthal (H) |
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| Mousterian (H) |
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(World, Europe, United Kingdom, England, Derbyshire) [1028971] |
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