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Ash Tree Cave
Derbyshire

 

 

Cave earths and loams
Epoch: Late Pleistocene; Biozone: Undefined; MIS: 1-2
Site: 1; Horizon: 275

Red cave-earth, yellow-brown loam, and black loam with limestone clasts (upper levels)


Archaeology

Industry Database source
Late Upper Palaeolithic White and Pettitt, 2011

Fauna

Taxon Family Database source
Homo sp. (archaeological evidence) Linnaeus, 1758 Hominidae White and Pettitt, 2011

 

Yellow stony clay
Epoch: Late Pleistocene; Biozone: Pin Hole MAZ; MIS: 3
Site: 1; Horizon: 627

Yellow stony clay (middle levels)


Archaeology

Industry Database source
Late Middle Palaeolithic White and Pettitt, 2011

Fauna

Taxon Family Database source
Lepus timidus Linnaeus, 1758 Leporidae Armstrong, 1956
Dicrostonyx torquatus (Pallas, 1778) Muridae Armstrong, 1956
Panthera leo (Linnaeus, 1758) Felidae Armstrong, 1956
Crocuta crocuta (Erxleben, 1777) Hyaenidae Armstrong, 1956
Canis lupus Linnaeus, 1758 Canidae Armstrong, 1956
Alopex lagopus (Linnaeus, 1758) Canidae Armstrong, 1956
Vulpes vulpes (Linnaeus, 1758) Canidae Armstrong, 1956
Ursus arctos Linnaeus, 1758 Ursidae Armstrong, 1956
Homo sp. (archaeological evidence) Linnaeus, 1758 Hominidae White and Pettitt, 2011
Equus ferus Boddaert, 1785 Equidae Armstrong, 1956
Coelodonta antiquitatis (Blumenbach, 1799) Rhinocerotidae Armstrong, 1956
Mammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach, 1799) Elephantidae Armstrong, 1956

 

Brown clay
Epoch: Late Pleistocene; Biozone: Banwell Bone Cave MAZ; MIS: 5a
Site: 1; Horizon: 1

Brown clay (lower levels)


Archaeology

No archaeology databased from this horizon.


Fauna

Taxon Family Database source
Lepus timidus Linnaeus, 1758 Leporidae Armstrong, 1956
Microtus oeconomus (Pallas, 1776) Muridae Armstrong, 1956
Canis lupus Linnaeus, 1758 Canidae Armstrong, 1956
Vulpes vulpes (Linnaeus, 1758) Canidae Armstrong, 1956
Ursus arctos Linnaeus, 1758 Ursidae Armstrong, 1956
Gulo gulo (Linnaeus, 1758) Mustelidae Armstrong, 1956
Rangifer tarandus (Linnaeus, 1758) Cervidae Armstrong, 1956
Bison priscus Bojanus, 1827 Bovidae Armstrong, 1956