Capeshead Cave, Lower Allithwaite, Cumbria


NGR: SD 3334 7812

NMR: SD37NW 4

SMR: C 2386

NCI: 2064

Excavation: Duke of Devonshire, 1800s; J.P. Morris, 1860s.

Curation: ?

Burials: MNI: 1+

Finds: : Pottery (?Bronze Age), animal bones.

Date: ?Bronze Age (3)

14C: -

Bibliography:

Ashmead, P. (1973) The history of cave exploration in the Morecambe Bay area. Cave Science 50: 29-41.

Barber, H. (1894) Furness and Cartmell Notes. Atkinson, Ulverston.

Allshorn, S. & Swire, P. (2017) Northern Caves. The Three Counties System and the North West. High Mead, Leeds.

Harrison, P.A. (1974) The caves of North-West Lancashire and South Cumbria. Contrebis: Bulletin of the Lancaster Archaeological Society 2(2): 34-35.

Holland, E.G. (1967) Furness Underground. Dalesman, Clapham.

Jackson, J.W. (1909) Notes on the bone-caves of Grange and district. The Lancashire Naturalist 2: 45-46, 85-90.

Morris, J.P. (1867) The bone caves of Cartmel. North Lonsdale Magazine and Lake District Miscellany 1: 166-172.

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