Lindale Low Cave (Broca Hill Cave #2), Upper Allithwaite, Cumbria

NGR: SD 4173 8014

NMR: SD48SW 22

SMR: LD 06506

NCI: 2062

Excavation: C.R. Salisbury, 1986-88.

Curation: Dock Museum, Barrow in Furness.

Burials: MNI: 1

Finds: Late Upper Palaeolithic flint blades, Bronze Age artefact.

Date: Unknown (5)

¹⁴C: -

Bibliography:

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.

Marrow, D.J. 1988. Excavations on the Terrace at Lindale Low Cave, Cumbria. Unpublished manuscript, Ashmead Archive.

Salisbury, C.R. (1988) Late Upper Palaeolithic artefacts from Lindale Low Cave, Cumbria. Antiquity 62: 510-513.

Salisbury, C.R. (1992a) The Pleistocene exploitation of Cumbria: a review of the evidence. Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society 92: 1-6.

Salisbury, C.R. (1992b) Late Pleistocene human occupation of the Morecambe Bay area. Contrebis 17: 15-23.

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