Peak District Caving

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Pinhole Cave

Stats

GradeI
Length52
Depth
Altitude91
Location53.2612 -1.2024
OS NGRSK 533 741

Feature

  • Cave
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Location

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Access

Limited & closely supervised access only. Contact Head Ranger well in advance, with SAE, at Visitor Centre, Crags Road, Welbeck, Worksop, Notts, S80 3LH, or tel. (reveal), to discuss requirements. A range of guided tours is available. Heritage site.

References

Heath, T. (1882), Pleistocene deposits of Derbyshire. .., Derbys. Arch. Jour. Vol.4., p.169., Derbyshire Archaeological Society
Armstrong, L. (1936), Derbyshire caves, 1936, Derbys. Arch. Soc. Jour. 57, pp. 127-128, Derbyshire Archaeological Society
Barker, I. & Beck, J.S. (2010), , Caves of the Peak District, p. 251, DCA
Jenkinson, R.D.S. (2023), A North-Western Habitat: the Paleoethology and Colonisation of a European Peninsula (a comprehensive analysis of excavations in Pin Hole Cave, Creswell Crags), Internet Archaeology 61, , Department of Archaeology, University of York