NGR: : ST 4642 8819
NPRN: -
SMR: 00492G
CCR: 2014-18
Excavation: c 1908.
Curation: Newport Museum and Art Gallery
Burials: MNI: 9+
Finds: None.
Date: Neolithic (1)
14C: 4110 bp (OxA-X-1018-32 redated 4640, OxA-22995);4178 bp (OxA-23139); 4350 bp (OxA-X-1018-31);4624 bp (OxA-22994) on human bone.
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Knowles, F.H.S. (1911) Report on the human remains from the Ifton limestone quarries, near Newport, Mon. In Human and other remains found in the neighbourhood of Newport, Mon. Newport Free Museum and Museum Committee, Newport, pp. 5-16.
Schulting, R.J. (2007) Non-monumental burial in Neolithic Britain: a (largely) cavernous view. In: L. Larsson, F. Lüth and T. Terberger (eds.), Non-Megalithic Mortuary Practices in the Baltic – New Methods and Research into the Development of Stone Age Society: pp. 581-603. Schwerin: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission 88.
Schulting, R.J. (2020) Claddedigaethau mewn ogofâu: Prehistoric human remains (mainly) from the caves of Wales. Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society 28 (2) : 185-219.