{"public_id":"CTF-ICO-000003","vault":"ICO","record_type":"engraving","record_type_label":"Engraving","title":"Engraved bird, Church Hole, Creswell Crags","summary":"A Late Upper Palaeolithic engraving of a bird on a cave wall, one of the oldest images in Britain.","description":"Discovered in 2003 among a group of engravings in Church Hole cave. Dated by uranium-series on overlying flowstone to about 13,000 years ago. The bird is usually read as an ibis or crane.","evidence_tier":"T2","verification_status":"expert","time":{"start":-13000,"end":-12000,"precision":"millennium","uncertainty_years":500,"dating_method":"radiometric","geological_interval":"pleistocene","bands":["pleistocene"]},"geometry_public":{"type":"point","coordinates":[-1.1931,53.2636]},"precision_class":"exact","sensitivity_class":"open","locality_public":"Creswell Crags, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, England","place":{"id":"creswell-crags","name":"Creswell Crags","type":"site"},"rights":{"licence":"CC-BY-4.0","licence_label":"CC BY 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Creswell Heritage Trust (illustrative placeholder)","rights_holder":"Creswell Heritage Trust (illustrative)","source_name":"Creswell Crags Museum","source_url":"https://www.creswell-crags.org.uk/","retrieved_on":"2026-09-01","mode":"link-out","citation":"Chronos Terra Foundation (2026). Engraved bird, Church Hole, Creswell Crags. CTF-ICO-000003."},"media":[],"links":[],"vault_fields":{"motif_tags":["bird"]},"registry":{"registered_on":"2026-09-01","version":"e125e168e7da","url":"https://chronos-terra.example.org/records/CTF-ICO-000003","json_url":"https://chronos-terra.example.org/generated/records/CTF-ICO-000003.json"}}