Engraved bird, Church Hole, Creswell Crags
A Late Upper Palaeolithic engraving of a bird on a cave wall, one of the oldest images in Britain.
13 to 12 ka · Creswell Crags, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, England · CTF-ICO-000003
About this record
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.
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