Hay Wood Rock Shelter
Excavation
L.S. Palmer & E.J. Chapman, 1957-1971.
Curation
Axbridge Museum.
Burials
MNI: 10+
Finds
Iron Age pottery; microlithic flint artefacts; ochre; animal bones.
Dates
| Period | Reliability |
|---|---|
| Neolithic | 14C date obtained directly on human remains |
14C
4674 to 5052 bp (OxA-5844, 19768, 19906-19917) on human bones.
External References
| Mendip Cave Registry and Archive | 1023 |
| National Monuments Record | ST 35 NW 14 |
Bibliography
Anon (1958-60) Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society 103: 17; 104: 15, 105: 16.
Branigan, K. & Dearne, M.J. (1991) A Gazetteer of Romano-British Cave Sites and their Finds. Department of Archaeology and Prehistory, University of Sheffield.
Everton, A. & Everton, R. (1972) Hay Wood Cave Burials, Mendip Hills, Somerset. Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society 13 (1): 5-29.
Hedges, R.E.M. et al. (1997) Radiocarbon dates from the Oxford AMS system: Archaeometry datelist 24. Archaeometry 39: 445-471.
Schulting, R.J., Chapman, M. & Chapman, E.J. (2013) AMS 14C dating and stable isotope (carbon, nitrogen) andlysis of an earlier Neolithic human skeletal assemblage from Hay Wood Cave, Mendip, Somerset. Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society 26 (1): 9-26.
Article Author Graham Mullan