Shaftoe Crags rock shelter (Capheaton)
Shaftoe Crags. Photo by Harry Rowland.
A south facing rock shelter exists at Shaftoe Crags and flints discovered in the 1980s and 1990s suggest it may have been used in the Mesolithic period. The flints included microliths, a blade fragment, end scraper and undiagnostic pieces. Archaeologists have excavated parts of the shelter and believe that they have found early occupation deposits.
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EXCAVATION, Mesolithic Rock Shelter at Salter¿s Nick, near East Shaftoe Hall ; John Davies and John Nolan
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