Creswell Crags

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Creswell Crags is a limestone gorge on the Derbyshire–Nottinghamshire border in England, famed for its Ice Age caves, prehistoric rock art, and important archaeological discoveries.

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Creswell Crags canonical 4
Creswell Crags Visitor Centre 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf archaeological site
limestone gorge
prehistoric rock art site
contains Church Hole Cave
Mother Grundy’s Parlour
Church Hole Cave
surface form: Pin Hole Cave

Robin Hood Cave
The Gorge Cave system
Yew Tree Shelter
country England
designation Scheduled Monument
Site of Special Scientific Interest
environment gorge with a lake
limestone landscape
geologicalComposition limestone
hasArchaeologicalPeriod Bronze Age
Mesolithic
Neolithic
Roman period
Upper Palaeolithic
hasDiscovery Palaeolithic hearths
animal bones
bear remains
bird bones
bone tools
cave hyena remains
cave lion remains
decorated objects
engraved bones
engraved rock art
faunal assemblages
flint tools
horse remains
human remains
lithic debitage
mammoth remains
portable art objects
reindeer remains
woolly rhinoceros remains
hasEvidenceOf Ice Age hunting activities
Neanderthal occupation
early modern human occupation
ritual activity
hasFacility educational programmes
guided cave tours
museum
visitor centre
hasFeature caves
gorge
rock shelters
hasNearbySettlement Creswell
Whitwell
Worksop
hasRockArtStyle Palaeolithic engravings
abstract motifs
figurative engravings
hasRockArtSubject animals
geometric designs
possible human figures
knownFor Ice Age caves
Ice Age fauna remains
Palaeolithic occupation
archaeological discoveries
prehistoric rock art
locatedIn Derbyshire
Nottinghamshire
locatedInRegion East Midlands
locatedOnBorderBetween Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire
managedBy Creswell Heritage Trust
partOf Creswell Heritage Area
timeDepthOfOccupation tens of thousands of years
usedFor archaeological research
heritage education
tourism

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Derbyshire containsLandmark Creswell Crags
Creswell hasNearbyFeature Creswell Crags
Creswell hasMuseum Creswell Crags
subject surface form: Creswell Crags
this entity surface form: Creswell Crags Visitor Centre
Creswell hasTouristAttraction Creswell Crags
Worksop near Creswell Crags