Portland Bumper's Lane Second Quarry
Also known as Silklake Quarry Fissures
Excavation
Ledbetter, 1951.
Curation
Portland Island Museum; Natural History Museum, London.
Burials
MNI: 4+
Finds
Chert cores and flakes, hammerstones, limestone macehead, animal bones.
Dates
| Period | Reliability |
|---|---|
| Early Bronze Age | Burial associated with non-diagnostic prehistoric artefacts |
| Neolithic | Burial associated with non-diagnostic prehistoric artefacts |
14C
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External References
| Mendip Cave Registry and Archive | 2671 |
| National Monuments Record | SY 67 SE 13 |
Bibliography
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Carreck, J.N. (1955) The Quaternary vertebrates of Dorset. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 75: 164-188.
Carreck, J.N. & Ford, T.D. (1966) The fauna of the Portland caves and fissures, Dorset. Transactions of the Cave Research Group of Great Britain 7: 205-208.
Dawkins, W.B. (1869) On the distribution of British post-glacial mammals. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 25: 192-217.
Ford, T.D. & Hooper, M.J. (1964) The caves of the Isle of Portland. Transactions of the Cave Research Group of Great Britain. 7 (1): 13-37.
O’Connor, M. & Graham, N. (2017) The Caves of the Isle of Portland. Wessex Cave Club Occasional Publication Series 3 No. 3.
Stopes, M.C. et al. (1953) A discovery of human skulls, with stone artifacts and animal bones, in a fissure at Portland. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 74: 39-47.
Palmer, S. (1967) A Mesolithic ‘Mace-head’ from Portland, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 89: 119-120.
Article Author Graham Mullan