<< Other Photo Pages >> Calling Low Dale - Cave or Rock Shelter in England in Derbyshire
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Natural PlacesSite Name: Calling Low DaleCountry: England County: Derbyshire Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Bakewell Nearest Village: Youlgreave
Map Ref: SK184654 Landranger Map Number: 119
Latitude: 53.185380N Longitude: 1.726108W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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Photos provided by Alexis Lambourne, who writes that "The cave / shelter makes use of a natural overhang in the cliff which makes a roof, this has been added to by enclosing it with a dry stone wall. The enclosed space is small (~6 ft long and maybe 4 feet wide). It is dry-ish, but the strata of the limestone rock just there is vertical making the roof quite loose and a bit drippy. Definitely more of a shelter than a 'home'. "
The Pastcape link provided by coldrum describes the 2 cists found in excavations in the 1930s. One contained a crouched female inhumation, the skull apparently pierced by a sharp weapon at the front. The other cist was filled with a fine soil which contained a quantity of human bones and sherds from two Peterborough Ware bowls. Full details are on Pastscape - well worth a read.... At least some finds from the site (including the surviving Peterborough Ware bowl) are stated by Pastscape to be in Sheffield City Museum.
Access is difficult, across some fields to get from the limestone way into the top of Calling Low Dale. However navigation is easy - just follow the wall line north out of Bee Low Wood. There are a couple of fences to hop over at the top of Calling Low Dale and then you go down the steep, narrow, overgrown dale to the shelter. Exit from Calling Low Dale should be made the same way as you went in (south to the limestone way). Progress into Lathkill dale is slow, steep, slippy and overgrown - Calling Low Dale also brings you out ~1km from the closest foot bridge over the river Lathkill, and getting along Lathkill Dale to the bridge is very hard work due to dense undergrowth!
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