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Submitted by PaulM on Wednesday, 09 March 2005  Page Views: 2001

DiscoveriesYork-based designer and developer of visitor attractions and exhibitions, Continuum Group, is to design a museum for the site of the UK’s earliest cave art – Creswell Crags. Last year, the Creswell Heritage Trust (CHT) appointed Continuum to help apply for the funds needed to develop a national Centre of Excellence on the site.

Last month, the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) granted the project a stage one pass and £195,000 to help produce more detailed designs for the attraction.

Continuum will now complete the masterplan for a museum and education centre mapping out the history behind the Ice Age engravings, believed to be around 12,000 years old.

Continuum hopes to secure the full £4.6m funding from HLF next spring, when it will make its final decision based on the masterplan.

Dominic Tweddle, chief executive of Continuum, said: “We will look for clear but clever ways to interpret the complex series of caves at Creswell, including the Ice Age cave art.”

Plans include the creation of three different zones inside the museum. The Discovery Zone will feature prehistoric cave techniques and is to offer an interactive explanation of life in the last Ice Age, while the Time Zone will allow visitors to see and experience the landscape as it changed over the millennia, looking out on the Crags through a virtual window.

The Knowledge Zone would explore the rich archaelogical collection from the site. Construction is anticipated to start in spring 2006.

Source: www.leisureopportunities.co.uk

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Re: Cave art heritage centre planned by baz on Thursday, 10 March 2005
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There's an excellent article here: Antiquity by the discoverers where they re-interpret the 'ibex' as a red deer stag.
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    Re: Cave art heritage centre planned by Thorgrim on Thursday, 10 March 2005
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    Wow! That is the best yet and makes it very clear that it is a stag. Noticed that the bird looks very like an ibis - (here we go again!) Thanks Baz.
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Re: Cave art heritage centre planned by Thorgrim on Thursday, 10 March 2005
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Yes Baz - that's what I meant though perhaps I didn't express myself well. No evidence of ibex found in Britain. First interpretation of drawing as an ibex is not correct - could have been cattle . You have put us right that its a deer. Thanks. Envy you seeing it - I applied but alas - too late.
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Re: Cave art heritage centre planned by baz on Thursday, 10 March 2005
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Err.....Arthur isn't quite correct.

When the cave art was first discovered, the largest carving was interpreted as an ibex. However, on further examination, it became clear that the 'ibex' has antlers and is definitely a deer.

There is no (known) engraving of an ibex at Creswell Crags.

I've had the privilege of viewing the cave art in Church Hole Cave three times, so far. It's awesome.

Baz
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Re: Cave art heritage centre planned by Thorgrim on Thursday, 10 March 2005
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You are quite correct, Arthur - see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2994130.stm

However I don't think that that makes the Cresswell engraving a fake. Perhaps the artist did not intend the animal to be an ibex - that may just be a modern interpretation - it could quite easily be a drawing of the wild cattle that were around at the time - like the aurochs. Another drawing at Cresswell has been interpreted as two birds while some one else declares that they are female dancers. Who really knows for certain? Today, ibex are only found on very high mountains, but it is not impossible that they were in Britain after the Ice Age. No evidence of their presence has been found yet, but that doesn't mean that they were never here. Pehaps the ibex gave us the legend of the unicorn and perhaps tomorrow, or the day after, an ibex skull will be found somewhere in Britain.
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Re: Cave art heritage centre planned by Anonymous on Thursday, 10 March 2005
Am I wrong!, when the first cave art was found at Creswell featuring an Ibex, did I read somewere that the Ibex did not make it to Britain. If so, could this be a Victorian fake. This period was notorious for such goings on. Arthur, Burbage, Leic`s.
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