Perthi Chwareu Cave I, Llanarmon-yn-ial, Denbighshire


NGR: SJ 1879 5363

NPRN: 306847

SMR: 100930

CCR: 916

Excavation: W.B. Dawkins, 1869-72.

Curation: Manchester Museum; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff (29.607).

Burials: MNI: 16+

Finds: Flint flake, charcoal, animal bones.

Date: Unknown (5)

14C: -

Bibliography:

Dawkins, W.B. (1870) On the discovery of platycnemic men in Denbighshire. Journal of the Ethnological Society of London 2: 440-468.

Dawkins, W.B. (1874) Cave Hunting. MacMillan, London.

Dawkins, W.B. (1912) Certain fixed points in the prehistory of Wales. Archaeologia Cambrensis 12: 61-108.

Fisher, C. (1926) Neolithic caves at Perthi Chwarae, near Llandegla. Proceedings of the Llandudno and District Field Club 13: 25-27.

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