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Cave could be “UK’s first intact domestic interior”

It may have few of the home comforts that we now associate with domestic life – yet experts believe that a cave house in Derbyshire, with a floor, roof, doors and windows, could be Anglo-Saxon – and possibly Britain’s oldest intact domestic dwelling.

Anchor Church Caves, between Foremark

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