Cockle's Wood Lower Cave
Excavation
Downside Archaeological Society, 1947-50.
Curation
? Taunton Museum.
Burials
MNI: 2+ (adults).
Finds
Grooved and Beaker pottery, flint scrapers, charcoal, fossil crinoids, animal bones.
Dates
| Period | Reliability |
|---|---|
| Bronze Age | Stratigraphical context of human remains indeterminate |
| Neolithic | Stratigraphical context of human remains indeterminate |
14C
-
External References
| Mendip Cave Registry and Archive | 422 |
| 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.
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.
Hickling, M.J.L. & Seaby, W.A. (1952) Finds from Cockle’s Wood Cave, Nettlebridge, Somerset. Proceedings of the Somerset Natural History and Archaeological Society 96: 193-202.
Wainwright, G.J. & Longworth, I.H. (1971) Durrington Walls: Excavations 1966-1968. Society of Antiquaries, London.
Article Author Graham Mullan