Creswell Crags Museum
A loan of Palaeolithic art from the British
Museum.
Creswell Crags forms part of one of Europe's most important
archaeological landscapes preserving the most significant cluster
of cave sites inhabited during the last Ice Age in Britain.
The caves provided shelter for Neanderthal and anatomically
modern people through a crucial period of human evolution between
130,000 and 10,000 years ago. Britain's oldest work of art, a fine
engraving of a horse found in Robin Hood Cave and the recent cave
art discoveries in Church Hole connects us with the great era of
cave painting on the continent.
The British Museum has been working with the Creswell Crags team
on an ongoing basis in order to facilitate the building of a new
museum, which will contain a long-term loan of British Museum
material.
Creswell Crags
Museum
Long term loan
Image: Engraved rib bone fragment,
Creswell Crags