Creswell Crags

Local nameCreswell Crags
LocationEast Midlands, UK

Creswell Crags is an enclosed limestone gorge on the border between Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, England, near the villages of Creswell and Whitwell. The cliffs in the ravine contain several caves that were occupied during the last ice age, between around 43,000 and 10,000 years ago. Its caves contain the northernmost cave art in Europe. The evidence of occupation found in the rich series of sediments that accumulated over many thousands of years is regarded as internationally unique in demonstrating how prehistoric people managed to live at the extreme northernmost limits of their territory during the Late Pleistocene period.

The caves contain occupation layers with evidence of flint tools from the Mousterian, proto-Solutrean, Creswellian and Maglemosian cultures. They were seasonally occupied by nomadic groups of people during the Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods.

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More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creswell_Crags

Official Website https://www.creswell-crags.org.uk/

Address Crags Road, S80 4AG, United Kingdom

Coordinates 53°15'43.047" N -1°11'58.419" E

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