Birk Bank Fissures (Caydale Hole), Old Byland and Scawton, North Yorkshire


NGR: SE 555 868

NMR: SE58NE 11

SMR: ?

Excavation: J.N. Grayson, 1952; MSG, 1981

Curation: Duckworth Laboratory, University of Cambridge

Burials: MNI: 1

Finds: ?

Date: Unknown (5)

14C: -

Bibliography:

Cooper, R.G. (1984) Birk Bank Fissures, Caydale, North Yorkshire. William Pengelly Cave Studies Trust Newsletter 44: 1-4.

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

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.

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