A 20,000-year-old mammoth tooth from Creswell Crags, a limestone gorge on the border of Derbyshire & Nottinghamshire, home to Ice Age rock art & once inhabited by Neanderthals. Creswell Crags was excavated by Manchester Museum’s first curator, William Boyd Dawkins, pioneer in the geological understanding of the Ice Age. The caves at Creswell Crags evidence Neanderthal occupation 50,000-60,000 years ago, it is also home to the northernmost cave art in Europe and the world-famous ritual, protective ‘Witch Marks’.
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