Saint Cuthbert’s Swallet, Priddy, Somerset


NGR: ST 5428 5050

NMR: ST 55 SW 132

SMR: -

SAM: -

MCRA: 224

Excavation: 1908.

Curation: Wells and Mendip Museum.

Burials: MNI: 1

Finds: Four glass beads.

Date: Late Iron Age (1)

14C: 2023 bp (SUERC-50796)

Bibliography:

Balch, H.E. (1914) Wookey Hole: Its Caves and Cave Dwellers. Oxford University Press.

Balch, H.E. & Troup, R.D.R. (1911) A late-Celtic and Romano-British cave-dwelling at Wookey-Hole, near Wells, Somerset. Archaeologia 62: 565-592.

Irwin, D.J. & Jarrett, A. (1993) Mendip Underground. A Caver’s Guide. 3rd Edition. Mendip Publishing, Castle Cary.

Lane, B. (2016) New radiocarbon dates for sites around Wells. Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society. 159: 186-190.

O'Connell, L.E. (2015) The Human Skeletal Remains from St. Cuthbert's Swallet, priddy, Somerset. Unpublished report.

Stenner, R.D. (1968) Water tracing in St Cuthbert’s Swallet, Priddy, Somerset. Transactions of the Cave Research Group of Great Britain 10: 49-60.

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