Excavations at Mother Grundy's Parlour, Creswell Crags, Derbyshire, 1924.

Armstrong, Adrian

doi:10.2307/2843698

Cited by 14 publications

(10 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…There have been several excavations in Pin Hole, initially by Mello and Heath in 1875 (Mello, 1875(Mello, , 1876 then by Armstrong from 1924to 1936(Armstrong, 1925, 1932, 1939, 1956, by Collcutt in 1974(Collcutt, 1975 and most recently by Jenkinson from 1984 to 1989. All of the dated samples were collected by Armstrong and it is his terminology for the cave which is used here.…”

Section: Pin Holementioning

confidence: 99%

AMS radiocarbon dating of Middle and Upper Palaeolithic bone in the British Isles: improved reliability using ultrafiltration

Jacobi

Higham

Ramsey

2006

J Quaternary Science

139

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Recent research at the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU) has shown that ultrafiltration of gelatin from archaeological bone can, in many instances, remove low molecular weight contaminants. These can sometimes be of a different radiocarbon age and, unless removed, may severely influence results, particularly when dating bones greater than two to three half-lives of 14 C. In this study this methodology is applied to samples of Late Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic age from the British Isles. In many instances the results of redating invite serious reconsideration of the chronology for these periods.

show abstract

Section: Pin Holementioning

confidence: 99%

AMS radiocarbon dating of Middle and Upper Palaeolithic bone in the British Isles: improved reliability using ultrafiltration

Jacobi

Higham

Ramsey

2006

J Quaternary Science

139

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The material described here was collected by A.L. Armstrong between 1924–1936 [ 19 – 23 ]. The specimen numbers are all listed in the S1 File .…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Long Term Response of Birds to Climate Change: New Results from a Cold Stage Avifauna in Northern England

Stewart

Jacobi

2015

PLoS ONE

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The early MIS 3 (55–40 Kyr BP associated with Middle Palaeolithic archaeology) bird remains from Pin Hole, Creswell Crags, Derbyshire, England are analysed in the context of the new dating of the site’s stratigraphy. The analysis is restricted to the material from the early MIS 3 level of the cave because the upper fauna is now known to include Holocene material as well as that from the Late Glacial. The results of the analysis confirm the presence of the taxa, possibly unexpected for a Late Pleistocene glacial deposit including records such as Alpine swift, demoiselle crane and long-legged buzzard with southern and/or eastern distributions today. These taxa are accompanied by more expected ones such as willow ptarmigan /red grouse and rock ptarmigan living today in northern and montane areas. Finally, there are temperate taxa normally requiring trees for nesting such as wood pigeon and grey heron. Therefore, the result of the analysis is that the avifauna of early MIS 3 in England included taxa whose ranges today do not overlap making it a non-analogue community similar to the many steppe-tundra mammalian faunas of the time. The inclusion of more temperate and woodland taxa is discussed in the light that parts of northern Europe may have acted as cryptic northern refugia for some such taxa during the last glacial. These records showing former ranges of taxa are considered in the light of modern phylogeographic studies as these often assume former ranges without considering the fossil record of those taxa. In addition to the anomalous combination of taxa during MIS 3 living in Derbyshire, the individuals of a number of the taxa are different in size and shape to members of the species today probably due to the high carrying capacity of the steppe-tundra.

show abstract

“…They contain long sequences covering much of the Late Pleistocene. Unfortunately virtually all the LMP assemblages were recovered in the late 19th or early 20th centuries and not excavated under ideal conditions with some collections now lost (Dawkins, 1876(Dawkins, , 1877Armstrong, 1925Jenkinson, 1984;Jacobi, 2007). More recent fieldwork and analysis of old collections have added to understanding of the sites.…”

Section: Creswell Crags and Ash Tree Cave (Derbyshire)mentioning

confidence: 97%