Saint Cuthbert’s Swallet
Excavation
1908.
Curation
Wells and Mendip Museum.
Burials
MNI: 1
Finds
Four glass beads.
Dates
| Period | Reliability |
|---|---|
| Late Iron Age | 14C date obtained directly on human remains |
14C
2023 bp (SUERC-50796)
External References
| Mendip Cave Registry and Archive | 224 |
| National Monuments Record | ST 55 SW 132 |
Bibliography
Balch, H.E. (1914) Wookey Hole: Its Caves and Cave Dwellers. Oxford University Press.
Balch, H.E. & Troup, R.D.R. (1911) A late-Celtic and Romano-British cave-dwelling at Wookey-Hole, near Wells, Somerset. Archaeologia 62: 565-592.
Irwin, D.J. & Jarrett, A. (1993) Mendip Underground. A Caver’s Guide. 3rd Edition. Mendip Publishing, Castle Cary.
Lane, B. (2016) New radiocarbon dates for sites around Wells. Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society. 159: 186-190.
O’Connell, L.E. (2015) The Human Skeletal Remains from St. Cuthbert’s Swallet, priddy, Somerset. Unpublished report.
Stenner, R.D. (1968) Water tracing in St Cuthbert’s Swallet, Priddy, Somerset. Transactions of the Cave Research Group of Great Britain 10: 49-60.
Article Author Graham Mullan