Brimble Pit Swallet, Westbury, Somerset


NGR: ST 5081 5073

NMR: ST 55 SW 133

SMR: S 31645

SAM: -

MCRA: 111

Excavation: ? 1956.

Curation: J. Lewis

Burials: MNI: ?

Finds: Polished greenstone axe, flint artefacts, Neolithic grooved ware pottery, animal bones.

Date: : Neolithic (4)

14C: -

Bibliography:

Barrington, N. and Stanton, W.I. (1977) Mendip - The Complete Caves and a View of the Hills. 3rd edition. Barton Publications, Cheddar.

Lewis, J. (2000) Upwards at 45 degrees: the use of vertical caves during the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age on Mendip, Somerset. CAPRA 2

Lewis, J. 2005. Monuments, Ritual and Regionality: the Neolithic of Northern Somerset. B.A.R. British Series 401. B.A.R., Oxford.

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