Thursday 26 August 2021

Creswell Crags Donation

 Having contacted Dr Angharad Jones at Creswell Crags Museum and Heritage Centre. I offered my remaining stone age collection of skulls, flints, bones and antler, etc... as an unconditional donation.


 The collection was stored in my garden shed and it was easily a car full of material which had been checked for spiders and loaded in my garage yesterday.

Today, the material is at Creswell Crags with the potential to enhance the museum education program and provide some display elements as the staff see fit.
This has cleared most of my shed contents and as soon as I can find a new home for the step-ladders and a couple of tables, the shed will be broken down and skipped.

The collections at Creswell are well kept and represent a good section of stone age animals from the site excavations and other historically sourced material.  The storage is very well organised (compared to how it was kept in the early 1980's) with a new museum building and store room.

The heritage centre displays are well worth seeing and show a good representation of the finds from the site.  There are some informative video shows, also a shop and a cafe.

In the Gorge, there is an opportunity for visitors to walk around the site and see the location of the various caves.  It is also possible to book a cave tour by one of the museum guides to get a closer look in the rock shelters.

On event days and heritage days, other activities are available.  Here is a picture of John Lord knapping fling tools for visitors to the Heritage event day in July 2007.

Creswell Crags is an excellent centre for research and education about the stone age hunting site and well worth a visit.

P.S. I have just looked at Creswell Crags on Google Earth and you can zoom close and then away in aerial view, and the layering will currently show the old buildings and the new buildings

Zoom out - new buildings......

Zoom in - old buildings........

 

2 comments:

Robert said...

Well Paul, my apologies for taking so long to play catch-up . You have been busy. I’m very impressed, but then I usually am by anything you do. Robert

Simone said...

It is good that you found a place to house your collection Paul. I am sure that your items will enhance what they already have.:)