Guy' Rift, Biddestone, Wiltshire


NGR: ST 8450 7371

NMR: ST 87 SW 6

SMR: MWI2301

SAM: -

MCRA: 1607

Excavation: G. St Barbe, 1922; T.F. Hewer, 1925.

Curation: UBSS Museum.

Burials: MNI: 7+ (4 adults, 3 children).

Finds: ?Iron Age pottery, flint blade and flakes, chalk bead, animal bones.

Date: ?Early Iron Age (3)

14C: -

Bibliography:

Buxton, L.H.D. (1926) Report on calvarium from Guy's Rift, Slaughterford, Wilts. Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society 2 (3): 235-237.

Buxton, L.H.D. (1927) Report on calvarium from Guy's Rift, Slaughterford, Wilts. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine 43: 487-489.

Hewer, T.F. (1924) Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine 42: 251.

Hewer, T.F. (1927) Guy's Rift, Slaughterford, Wilts: an early Iron Age habitation. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine 43: 483-487.

Hewer, T.F. (1926) Guy's Rift, Slaughterford, Wiltshire. Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society 2 (3): 229-234.

Self, C.A. & Boycott, A. (2000) Landslip caves of the southern Cotswolds. Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society 21 (3): 197-214.

Tucker, J.H. (1965) Caves in the Jurassic limestone outcrop of the north west Wiltshire/north east Somerset border area. Journal of the Axbridge Caving Group and Archaeological Society 10-23.

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