CAVE BURIAL

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

Birk Bank Fissures

Also known as Caydale Hole


Excavation

J.N. Grayson, 1952; MSG, 1981

Curation

Duckworth Laboratory, University of Cambridge

Burials

MNI: 1

Finds

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Dates

PeriodReliability
UnknownNo reliable dating information available

14C

-

Old Byland and Scawton

North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire

NGR: SE 555 868

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External References

National Monuments RecordSE58NE 11
Sites and Monument Record?

Bibliography

Cooper, R.G. (1984) Birk Bank Fissures, Caydale, North Yorkshire. William Pengelly Cave Studies Trust Newsletter 44: 1-4.

Gibbs, J. & Stewart, R. (2003) Moorland Caver. A Guide to the Caves and Windypits of the North Yorkshire Moors. JMG Books, Redcar.

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.

Article Author Graham Mullan