CAVE BURIAL

Gazetteer of Caves, Fissures and Rock Shelters in Britain Containing Human Remains

Hope Wood Hole

Also known as Cook's Hill Hole


Excavation

Westminster Speleological Society, 1950-51.

Curation

?

Burials

MNI: 1

Finds

Middle and Late Bronze Age pottery, flint scrapers and flakes, animal bones.

Dates

PeriodReliability
UnknownNo reliable dating information available

14C

-

St Cuthbert Out

Somerset

South West

NGR: ST 5216 4844

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External References

Mendip Cave Registry and Archive121
National Monuments RecordST 54 NW 35
Sites and Monument RecordS 24335

Bibliography

Branigan, K. & Dearne, M.J. (1991) A Gazetteer of Romano-British Cave Sites and their Finds. Department of Archaeology and Prehistory, University of Sheffield.

Jackson, J.W. (1962) Archaeology and palaeontology. In Cullingford, C.H.D. (ed) British Caving. p. 321.

Mason, D. (1952) Note on human skeleton found at Cook’s Hill Wood, near Wookey Hole. Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society 97: 186-187.

Article Author Graham Mullan