Dog Holes Cave, Warton, Lancashire


NGR: SD 4833 7303

NMR: SD47SE 2

SMR: L 511

SAM: 11279

NCI: 2069

Excavation: J.W. Jackson, 1907 - 1912.

Curation: Lancaster Museum; Bolton Museum; British Museum; Sedgwick Museum Cambridge; Manchester Museum; Natural History Museum, London.

Burials: MNI: 15+

Finds: : Group 4 polished axe, Later Neolithic and Beaker pottery, chert scraper, flint flakes, antler pick, Romano-British artefacts, animal bones.

Date: Late Neolithic (2)

14C: -

Bibliography:

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

Branigan, K. & Dearne, M.J. (1991) A Gazetteer of Romano-British Cave Sites and their Finds. Department of Archaeology and Prehistory, University of Sheffield.

Gilks, J.A. (2013) Beaker pottery from caves and rock shelters in the karst of North-West England. Transactions of the Hunter Archaeological Society 27: 1-7.

Jackson, J.W. (1909) On the discovery of the remains of lemmings in Dog Holes, Warton Crag. The Lancashire Naturalist 2: 227-229.

Jackson, J.W. (1909) Preliminary report on the exploration of "Dog Holes" Cave, Warton Crag, near Carnsforth, Lancashire. Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society 27: 1-32.

Jackson, J.W. (1910) Further report on the explorations at Dog Holes, Warton Crag, Lancashire, with remarks on the contents of two adjacent caves. Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society 28: 59-81.

Jackson, J.W. (1909/10) Notes on the bone-caves of Grange and district. The Lancashire Naturalist 2: 45-46, 85-90.

Jackson, J.W. (1909/10) On the mollusca from the “cave earth”, Dog Holes, Warton Crag. The Lancashire Naturalist 2: 217-222, 233-238, 261-265.

Jackson, J.W. (1909/10) On the discovery of the remains of lemmings in Dog Holes, Warton Crag. The Lancashire Naturalist 2: 227-229.

Jackson, J.W. (1909/10) On the vertebrate fauna found in the cave-earth at Dog Holes, Warton Crag. The Lancashire Naturalist 2: 323-332.

Jackson, J.W. (1912) Third report on the excavations at Dog Holes, Warton Crag, Lancashire. Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society 30: 99-130.

Jackson, J.W. (1915) Dental mutilations in Neolithic human remains. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology 49: 72-79.

Penney, S.H. and Wild, T.P. (1982) Roman (twill-weave) textile impression from Dog Holes Cave (Lancs). Contrebis 9: 34.

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