NGR: ST 4826 5357
NMR: ST 45 SE 23
SMR: S 10349
SAM: -
MCRA: 766
Excavation: Wessex Cave Club, 1960; P. Gardiner, 1998.
Curation: Wells and Mendip Museum.
Burials: MNI: 6+ (3+ adults, 3 children)
Finds: Mesolithic and Bronze Age stone tools, Bronze Age and Romano-British pottery, animal bones.
Date: Early Mesolithic and Neolithic (1)
14C: 8180 bp (BM-2973), 8245 bp (OxA-16457) on human bone; 4008 bp to 4706 bp (OxA-16,458 to 16,462) on human bone.
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