The Ochre Horse
The Robin Hood Cave Horse or Ochre Horse is a fragment of rib engraved with a horse’s head, discovered in 1876 in the Robin Hood Cave in Creswell Crags, Derbyshire. It is the only piece of Upper Palaeolithic portable art showing an animal to have been found in Britain.
It is now in the British Museum, but not on display. A replica of the artifact is displayed at the Creswell Crags Museum.
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