Ashberry Windypits
Excavation
1955-72
Curation
Scarborough Museum
Burials
MNI: 4 (3 adults, 1 juvenile)
Finds
AOC and PTC Beakers; flint artefacts; Romano-British artefacts, animal bones.
Dates
| Period | Reliability |
|---|---|
| Neolithic | 14C date obtained directly on human remains |
14C
3873 bp (OxA-13003), 3773 bp (OxA-14439) on human bone
External References
| National Monuments Record | SE58NE 13 |
| Sites and Monument Record | ? |
Bibliography
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Fitton, E.P. & Mitchell, D. (1950) The Ryedale windypits. Cave Science 2(12): 162-184.
Gibbs, J. & Stewart, R. (2003) Moorland Caver. A Guide to the Caves and Windypits of the North Yorkshire Moors. JMG Books, Redcar.
Gibson, A.M. (1982) Beaker domestic sites: a study of the domestic pottery of the late third and early second millenia B.C. in the British Isles. British Archaeological Reports British Series 107. B.A.R., Oxford.
Hayes, R.H. (1987) Archaeological finds in the Ryedale Windypits. Studies in Speleology 7: 31-74.
Leach, S. (2015) Going Underground: an Anthropological and Taphonomic Study of Human Skeletal Remains from Caves and Rock Shelters in Yorkshire. Leeds. Yorkshire Archaeological Society.
Ryder, P.F. (1973) Ashberry Windypit. Moldywarps Speleological Group Journal 6: 19-20.
Article Author Graham Mullan