CAVE BURIAL

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

Pitton Cliff Cave


Excavation

Cwmbran Caving Club, 1985.

Curation

-

Burials

MNI: 1+

Finds

Bronze Age artefact, animal bones.

Dates

PeriodReliability
Middle Neolithic14C date obtained directly on human remains

14C

4882 bp (OxA-11781, redated 4837 bp, OxA-16570) on human bone.

Rhossili

Swansea

Wales

NGR: SS 4251 8754

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External References

Sites and Monument Record05736w
Cambrian Caving Council Record2017-69

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