Ash Tree Cave, near Creswell, Derbyshire, has yielded Middle and Upper Palaeolithic artefacts as well as mammalian faunas. The lowest levels have no archaeology and a Banwell Bone Cave mammal assemblage zone (MAZ) fauna (Currant & Jacobi, 2001) with reindeer, wolverine, wolf, and other animals. The middle layers have Middle Palaeolithic artefacts and a Pin Hole MAZ fauna (Currant & Jacobi, 2001) that includes Arctic fox, Arctic lemming, woolly rhino, hyaena, woolly mammoth and horse. Upper Palaeolithic artefacts are found in the higher levels, which are overlain by later Bronze Age archaeology.
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