Tynings Great Swallet
Excavation
UBSS 1920s, 1950s, 1985-2004.
Curation
UBSS Museum.
Burials
MNI: 3
Finds
Flint scraper, animal bones.
Dates
| Period | Reliability |
|---|---|
| Iron Age | 14C date obtained directly on human remains |
14C
2254 bp (OxA-15350) on human bone.
External References
| Mendip Cave Registry and Archive | 143 |
Bibliography
Mullan, G.J. (2007) Radiocarbon dates from Tyning’s Great Swallet, Charterhouse-on-Mendip, Somerset. Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society 24 (1): 49-52.
Mullan, G.J. & Boycott, A.J. (2005) Archaeological note: skeletal material recovered from Tyning’s Great Swallet, Charterhouse-on-Mendip, Somerset. Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society 23 (2): 135-140.
Higham, T.F.G. et al. (2007) Radiocarbon dates from the Oxford AMS system: Archaeometry Datelist 32. Archaeometry S1: 1-60.
Article Author Graham Mullan