Heaning Wood Bone Cave, Urswick, Cumbria


NGR: SD 2671 7483

NMR: SD27SE 65

SMR: C 2366

NCI: 2087

Excavation: E.G. Holland, 1958.

Curation: Barrow Museum.

Burials: MNI: 8 (3 adults, 5 juveniles)

Finds: : Collared Urn, stone knife, bone pin, animal bones.

Date: Mesolithic, Neolithic and Early Bronze Age (1)

14C: Early Bronze Age dates on human bone.

Bibliography:

Barnes, F. (1970) Prehistoric pottery from Furness. Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society 70: 1-8.

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) Underground in Furness. Dalesman, Clapham.

Longworth, I.H. (1984) Collared Urns of the Bronze Age in Great Britain and Ireland. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Smith, I. (2012). Radio-carbon dating of bones from caves in Furness. Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Newsletter 70: 6.

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