Fairy Hole, Warton, Lancashire


NGR: SD 4968 7294

NMR: SD47SE 6

SMR: -

NCI: 2072

Excavation: J.W. Jackson, 1910; Red Rose Cave and Pothole Club, 1954-62.

Curation: Lancaster Museum.

Burials: MNI: 2+

Finds: : Flint flakes, pottery, iron artefacts, animal bones.

Date: Unknown (5)

14C: -

Bibliography:

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

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

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

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.

Murphy, P.J., Moseley, G.E., Moseley, M. & Edwards, R.L. (2016) Preliminary uranium-series ages and stable-isotopes from Fairy Hole, Warton Crag, Lancashire, UK: implications for speleogenesis and paleoclimate. Cave and Karst Science 43: 103-106.

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments of England (1936) An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland. HMSO, London.

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