Lower Attermire Cave (Horseshoe Cave), Settle, North Yorkshire


NGR: SD 842 642

NMR: SD86SW 13

SMR: YD 3822

Excavation: W.B. Dawkins, 1870s; J. Simpson, 1930; T. Lord, 1931-1950s.

Curation: Leeds City Museum; T.C. Lord.

Burials: MNI: 1 (adult)

Finds: Flint artefacts, Neolithic (Peterborough ware) pottery, IA & 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.

Cuttriss, S.W. (1897) Notes on the caves of Yorkshire. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society 13: 311-324.

King, A. (1970) Romano-British metalwork from the Settle District of West Yorkshire. Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 62: 410-417.

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

Smith, H.E. (1865) The limestone caves of Craven and their ancient inhabitants. Transactions of the Historical Society of Lancashire and Cheshire 5: 199-230.

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