Bridged Pot Shelter
Excavation
H.E. Balch, 1926-1927; C.B.M. McBurney, 1958.
Curation
Wells and Mendip Museum; Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography; Bolton Museum; UBSS Museum.
Burials
MNI: ? 1+
Finds
Neolithic and Bronze Age pottery including beaker; polished flint axe; flint knife, scraper and flakes; animal bones.
Dates
| Period | Reliability |
|---|---|
| Neolithic | 14C date obtained on organic material closely associated with a burial, or, undated human remains closely associated with diagnostic prehistoric artifects or other datable material |
| Early Bronze Age | 14C date obtained on organic material closely associated with a burial, or, undated human remains closely associated with diagnostic prehistoric artifects or other datable material |
14C
8890bp (BM-2102) on animal bone
External References
| Mendip Cave Registry and Archive | 110 |
| National Monuments Record | ST 54 NW 30 |
| Sites and Monument Record | S 24332 |
Bibliography
Balch, H.E. (1928) Excavations at Wookey Hole and other Mendip caves, 1926-7. Antiquaries Journal 8: 193-210.
Balch, H.E. (1928) Explorations at Ebbor. Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society 74: 157.
Balch, H.E. (1948) Mendip - Its Swallet Caves and Rock Shelters. Wright, Bristol.
Burleigh, R., Ambers, J. & Matthews, K. (1984) British Museum natural radiocarbon measurements XVII. Radiocarbon 26 (1): 59-74.
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.
McBurney, C.B.M. (1959) Report on the first season’s fieldwork on British Upper Palaeolithic cave deposits. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 25: 260-269.
Price, C.R. (2003) Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Small Mammals in South West Britain. BAR British Series 347. B.A.R., Oxford.
Article Author Graham Mullan