Slip Gill Windypit
Also known as Snip Gill Windypit
Excavation
E.P. Fitton, 1949; A. Pacitto, 1956; R.G. Cooper, 1981.
Curation
Scarborough Museum.
Burials
MNI: 4 (2 adults, 2 juveniles)
Finds
Handled Beaker.
Dates
| Period | Reliability |
|---|---|
| Roman | 14C date obtained directly on human remains |
14C
1991 bp (OxA-11800), 1931 bp (OxA-14440) on human bone.
External References
| National Monuments Record | SE58SE 24 |
| Sites and Monument Record | NM? |
Bibliography
Cooper, R.G. et al. (1976) The North Yorkshire windypits: a review. Transactions of the British Cave Research Association 3 (2): 77-94.
Cooper, R.G. et al. (1982) The windypits in Duncombe Park, Helmsley, North Yorkshire. Transactions of the British Cave Research Association 9 (1): 1-14.
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. (1955) Snip Gill Windypit, Ryedale, Yorkshire. Cave Science 3: 324-325.
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.
Pierpoint, S.J. (1984) A new survey of the Windypits in Duncombe Park, Helmsley, North Yorkshire. Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 56: 23-26.
Article Author Graham Mullan