Little Orme's Head Quarry, Llandudno, Conwy


NGR: SH 819 824

NPRN: 401618

SMR: 4547

CCR: 2014-13

Excavation: 1981.

Curation: Llandudno Museum.

Burials: MNI: 1 (adult).

Finds: Bronze spear head (not associated with skeleton) animal bones.

Date: Neolithic (1)

14C: 4720 bp (Beta-87306) on human bone.

Bibliography:

Dibble, K. (1997) The Lady of the Little Orme. Privately printed.

Gregory, R.A., Roberts, J., Robinson, M.E. & Shimwell, D.W. (2000). A retrospective assessment of 19th-century finds from a Little Orme quarry. Archaeology in Wales 40: 3-8.

Morton, G.H. (1898) The carboniferous limestone of the country around Llandudno (North Wales). Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 54: 382-400.

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