Pitton Cliff Cave
Excavation
Cwmbran Caving Club, 1985.
Curation
-
Burials
MNI: 1+
Finds
Bronze Age artefact, animal bones.
Dates
Period | Reliability |
---|---|
Middle Neolithic | 14C date obtained directly on human remains |
14C
4882 bp (OxA-11781, redated 4837 bp, OxA-16570) on human bone.
External References
Sites and Monument Record | 05736w |
Cambrian Caving Council Record | 2017-69 |
Bibliography
Davies, M. (1993) The Caves of the South Gower Coast: an Archaeological Assessment. Swansea.
Elgoff, S. & Evans, E. (2010) Later Prehistoric Undefended and Roman Rural Settlement in Southeast Wales.
Pettitt, R.G. 2015. Materiality in Early Bronze Age Wales. PhD thesis, University of Manchester.
Schulting, R.J. (2020) Claddedigaethau mewn ogofâu: Prehistoric human remains (mainly) from the caves of Wales. Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society 28 (2) : 185-219.
Article Author Graham Mullan