Slip Gill ('Snip Gill') Windypit, Old Byland and Scawton, North Yorkshire


NGR: SE 5770 8372

NMR: SE58SE 24

SMR: NM?

Excavation: E.P. Fitton, 1949; A. Pacitto, 1956; R.G. Cooper, 1981.

Curation: Scarborough Museum.

Burials: MNI: 4 (2 adults, 2 juveniles)

Finds: Handled Beaker.

Date: Romano-British (1)

14C: 1991 bp (OxA-11800), 1931 bp (OxA-14440) 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.

Cooper, R.G. et al. (1982) The windypits in Duncombe Park, Helmsley, North Yorkshire. Transactions of the British Cave Research Association 9 (1): 1-14.

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. (1955) Snip Gill Windypit, Ryedale, Yorkshire. Cave Science 3: 324-325.

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.

Pierpoint, S.J. (1984) A new survey of the Windypits in Duncombe Park, Helmsley, North Yorkshire. Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 56: 23-26.

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