Rowberrow Cavern, Shipham, Somerset


NGR: ST 4596 5802

NMR: ST 45 NE 5

SMR: S 10767

SAM: 13206

MCRA: 841

Excavation: H. Taylor, 1920-26.

Curation: UBSS Museum (now destroyed).

Burials: MNI: 1+

Finds: Flint artefacts; Bronze Age and Iron Age pottery, Romano-British artefacts; animal bones.

Date: Unknown (5)

14C: -

Bibliography:

Balch, H.E. (1948) Mendip, its Swallet Caves and Rock Shelters. Wright, Bristol.

Branigan, K. & Dearne, M.J. (1991) A Gazetteer of Romano-British Cave Sites and their Finds. Department of Archaeology and Prehistory, University of Sheffield.

Davies, J.A. & Tratman, E.K. (1924) Recent discoveries in the Mendip caves. Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society 25-30.

Dawkins, W.B. (1863) On a hyaena den at Wookey Hole, near Wells. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 19: 260-274.

Donovan, D.T. (1951) Museum report. Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society 6 (2): 106-108.

Green, H.S. (1980) The Flint Arrowheads of the British Isles. B.A.R. British Series 75. B.A.R., Oxford.

Taylor, H. (1921) Rowberrow Cavern. Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society 1 (2): 83-86.

Taylor, H. (1922) Second report on Rowberrow Cavern. Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society 1 (3): 130-134.

Taylor, H. (1923) Third report on Rowberrow Cavern. Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society 2 (1): 40-50.

Taylor, H. (1924) Fourth report on Rowberrow Cavern. Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society 2 (2): 122-124.

Taylor, H. (1925) Percy Sladen Memorial Fund excavations at Rowberrow Cavern, 1925. Being the fifth report on the cave. Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society 2 (3): 190-210.

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