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 kaCreswell Crags, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, England
Vault
Iconography vault
Carvings, motifs and images that carry ecological and cultural memory.
3 published records. Locations are shown only as precisely as it is safe to show them.
Catalogue
3 records
Aberlemno serpent stone
A Pictish symbol stone carved with a serpent, double disc and mirror, standing by the roadside.
600 to 800 CEAberlemno, Angus, Scotland
Capercaillie in a Victorian sporting engraving
A nineteenth-century engraving of a displaying capercaillie, made soon after the bird's reintroduction.
1860 to 1880Scottish Highlands
Methods note
Every record in this vault is a direct record (T1) or a documented account (T2). No reconstruction methods are used.
Time and location rules for all vaults are on the Methods and Ethics pages.
Sources
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Digitised library · CC0 1.0 Public domain dedication
- Creswell Crags Museum · CC BY 4.0