CAVE BURIAL

Gazetteer of Caves, Fissures and Rock Shelters in Britain Containing Human Remains

Regional Sites - North West

Listing all sites in the North West region.

Site NameDate PeriodsLocation

Allithwaite Cave

Whittons Cave

Unknown

Allithwaite

Cumbria

Bart's Shelter

Unknown

Aldingham

Cumbria

Baycliff Haggs

Scales Green

Unknown

Aldingham

Cumbria

Birkrigg Common

Post-Medieval

Urswick

Cumbria

Bonfire Scar Cave

Neolithic

Bronze Age

Iron Age

Aldingham

Cumbria

Capeshead Cave

Bronze Age

Lower Allithwaite

Cumbria

Dog Hole Cave

Haverbrack Bank Pot

Roman

Beetham

Cumbria

Dog Holes Cave

Neolithic

Warton

Lancashire

Dunald Mill Hole

Roman

Nether Kellet

Lancashire

Fairy Hole

Unknown

Warton

Lancashire

Fairy Holes

Bronze Age

Bowland-with-Leagram

Lancashire

Heaning Wood Bone Cave

Bronze Age

Neolithic

Mesolithic

Urswick

Cumbria

Helsfell Cave

Unknown

Strickland Ketel

Cumbria

Kents Bank Cavern

Mesolithic

Lower Allithwaite

Cumbria

Kirkhead Cave

Early Medieval

Lower Allithwaite

Cumbria

Lindale Low Cave

Broca Hill Cave #2

Unknown

Upper Allithwaite

Cumbria

Merlewood Cave

Windermere Wood Cave

Unknown

Grange-over-Sands

Cumbria

Perwick Cave

Unknown

Rushen

Isle of Man

Rawthey Cave

Bronze Age

Roman

Sedbergh

Cumbria

Wakebarrow Pot

Whitbarrow Bone Cave

Unknown

Crosthwaite and Lyth

Cumbria