Greater Kelcoe Cave, Giggleswick, North Yorkshire


NGR: SD 8101 6465

NMR: SD86SW 2

SMR: YD 3811

Excavation: J. Hartley, 1846; J. Jackson, 1850; Settle Naturalist & Antiquarian Society, 1928-37.

Curation: Craven Museum, Skipton; British Museum, London; T.C. Lord private collection.

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

Finds: Peterborough Ware; RB 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.

Gilks, J.A. (2005) The polished stone axes from four caves in the Craven Uplands of North Yorkshire. Transactions of the Hunter Archaeological Society 23: 1-5.

Gilks, J.A. (2013) Beaker pottery from caves and rock shelters in the karst of North-West England. Transactions of the Hunter Archaeological Society 27: 1-7.

Jackson, J.W. (1938) Schedule of cave finds (part IV). Caves and Caving 1 4: 127-130.

Leach, S. (2006) Going Underground: an Anthropological and Taphonomic Study of Human Skeletal Remains from Caves and Rock Shelters in Yorkshire. PhD thesis, University of Winchester.

Simpson, E. (1950) The Kelcow Caves, Giggleswick, Yorkshire. Cave Science 2: 258-262.

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