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Cockle's Wood Fissure

Also known as Cockle's Wood Upper Cave; Nettlebridge Cave

Excavation

D.B. Hicks, 1905.

Curation

Wells and Mendip Museum.

Burials

MNI: 2

Finds

Peterborough ware.

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

¹⁴C

Field Glossary

Ashwick

Somerset

South West

NGR: ST 64629 48537

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External References

Mendip Cave Registry and Archive	423
National Monuments Record	ST 64 NW 5
Sites and Monument Record	S 23064

Bibliography

Balch, H.E. (1948) Mendip - Its Swallet Caves and Rock Shelters. Wright, Bristol.

Hickling, M.J.L. (1948) Cockle’s Wood Caves, Nettlebridge. Proceedings and Journal of the Downside Archaeological Society 1 (1): 1-3.

Hickling, M.J.L. (1949) Pottery from the Cockle’s Wood Caves at Nettlebridge. Proceedings and Journal of the Downside Archaeological Society 1 (2): 1-5.

Watkin, A. (1969) Presidential address: some archaeological experiences in Somerset. Proceedings of the Somerset Natural History and Archaeological Society 113: 11-16.

Article Author Graham Mullan