Ashberry Windypits, Old Byland and Scawton, North Yorkshire


NGR: SE 5709 8501

NMR: SE58NE 13

SMR: ?

Excavation: 1955-72

Curation: Scarborough Museum

Burials: MNI: 4 (3 adults, 1 juvenile)

Finds: AOC and PTC Beakers; flint artefacts; Romano-British artefacts, animal bones.

Date: Neolithic (1)

14C: 3873 bp (OxA-13003), 3773 bp (OxA-14439) on human bone

Bibliography:

Cooper, R.G. et al. (1976) The North Yorkshire windypits: a review. Transactions of the British Cave Research Association. 3(2): 77-94.

Fitton, E.P. & Mitchell, D. (1950) The Ryedale windypits. Cave Science 2(12): 162-184.

Gibbs, J. & Stewart, R. (2003) Moorland Caver. A Guide to the Caves and Windypits of the North Yorkshire Moors. JMG Books, Redcar.

Gibson, A.M. (1982) Beaker domestic sites: a study of the domestic pottery of the late third and early second millenia B.C. in the British Isles. British Archaeological Reports British Series 107. B.A.R., Oxford.

Hayes, R.H. (1987) Archaeological finds in the Ryedale Windypits. Studies in Speleology 7: 31-74.

Leach, S. (2015) Going Underground: an Anthropological and Taphonomic Study of Human Skeletal Remains from Caves and Rock Shelters in Yorkshire. Leeds. Yorkshire Archaeological Society.

Ryder, P.F. (1973) Ashberry Windypit. Moldywarps Speleological Group Journal 6: 19-20.

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