CAVE BURIAL

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

Heights Lane Grike

Also known as Skyrethorns, Skirethorns


Excavation

University of Bradford, 1994.

Curation

T.C. Lord.

Burials

MNI: 1

Finds

none.

Dates

PeriodReliability
Iron Age14C date obtained directly on human remains

14C

2410 bp (OxA-6109) on human bone

Threshfield

North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire

NGR: SD 965 645

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Bibliography

Bronk Ramsey, C., et al. (2002) Radiocarbon dates from the Oxford AMS system: Archaeometry datelist 31. Archaeometry 44. 3. (S1): 1-149.

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