SpaceDog Journal - Entry # 12

SpaceDog Journal

Entry # 12

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Odyssey, SpaceDog, David, and Hazel visit Creswell Crags' Robin Hood Cave, listened to a talk about the cave system and about something found recently in another cave that made headline news. The find was some of the most northern cave art ever found. The following week Odyssey and SpaceDog visited Creswell Crag again to hear about the bats that occupy the area cave systems and the story around Pinhole Cave.

Creswell Crag - Home of the Ice Age Hunter
15th July

The Sign outside the Museum and Education Centre reads:

What is Creswell Crags?
The Limestone gorge of Creswell Crag is pitted with caves. Some of these caves provided sheltered camp sites for Stone Age hunters including Neanderthals, during the Ice Age. Hyenas and other animals used the caves as dens.
Things to do at Creswell Crags
Explore the gorge and caves
You can walk to the gorge yourself in 2 minutes by following the way marked path. Give yourself an hour to walk around the gorge and explore the caves. All the caves have grilled entrances for your safety. Information points in the gorge provide insight into the archaeology and past environments of the site
Cave Tours
Cave tours into Robin Hood Cave are run regularly from the museum and Education Centre. In order to book on a cave tour or for further information about other events and activities contact the Museum and Education Centre or use the web site www.creswell.crags.org.uk

The Museum and Education Centre
Could you have survived the Ice Age? Exhibitions, displays, and a video in the Centre help you to explore why our ancestors camped at Creswell Crags more then 10,000 years ago and the plants and animals they were likely to have seen.

Looking after Creswell Crags
Please help us to preserve the Crags by: ...keeping to the surfaced paths in the bottom of the gorge and not climbing on the cliffs or slopes. The woodlands either side of the gorge are privately owned by Welbeck Estate and are not open to visitors.

Creswell Crags is looked after by Creswell Heritage Trust in partnership with Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire County Councils, Welbeck Estate, English Nature and English Heritage.
The gorge is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and a Site Special Scientific Interest.


Neanderthal model	Wall murals in the Education Centre

*Robin Hood Cave* sign
Walking to the Crags through	the forest next to the stream
Note the cave on the left side	The Crags is the gorge
Outside *Robin Hood Cave* looking across the gorge	The road next to this side of the gorge.
Inside the cave with our guide	who passes around a flint knife

While inside the cave under a low ceiling,

we pass around tools like this flint axe head,

a bone hammer, and other ancient artifacts

looking at the craftsmanship of people who lived	in this cave more then 10,000 years ago.
Creswell Crag - Pinhole Cave 22nd July
*Pin Hole Cave* sign
Next to the geese and goslings	Self photo
Pin Hole Cave gate	and SpaceDog waiting for the tour

The guide looks and finds only one	Pippistral bat
	The Pippistral bat is the size of a human thumb and is one of 9 species of bat that populate the area. Although a light is shining on the bat it will not wake and is content knowing that it is safe in this cave.

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