Harboro' Cave
| Harboro' Cave | |
| Derbyshire | |
|---|---|
 Harboro' Cave entrance | |
| SK24225523 | |
| Co-ordinates: | 53°5’37"N, 1°38’23"W |
| Geology: | Limestone |
Harboro' Cave a natural cavern in the side of Harboro' Rocks, a hill in the White Peak area of the Peak District, in Derbyshire.
The cave was occupied at times from the Ice Age up to the Modern Age and has yielded up a wealth of archaeological treasures.
Archaeologists have found in the cave evidence of human occupants since the Ice Age.[1]
Occupation though extended even into the modern era: Daniel Defoe reported in his book Tour thro' the whole Island of Great Britain (published in 1726) that a poor family of seven was living in the cave. Defoe described how the father was a lead miner and was "lean as a skeleton, pale as a dead corps" but that they "seemed to live very pleasantly".[2][3]
The cave is today a protected Scheduled Monument.[4]
References
- ↑ Harborough Cave: Heritage Gateway
- ↑ 'When Robinson Crusoe Visited Brassington': Brassington Community
- ↑ Slack, Ronald (2000). "Lead Miners' Heydey". https://pdmhs.co.uk/docs/slack---lead-miners-heyday.pdf.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1007044: Harboro' Cave (Scheduled ancient monument entry)