Upper Kendrick's Cave, Llandudno, Conwy


NGR: SH 77981 82821

NPRN: 300812

SMR: 5029

SAM: Cn 191

CCR: 2014-17

Excavation: M. Davies, 1977-79.

Curation: National Museum of Wales, Cardiff

Burials: MNI: : 1 (Adult).

Finds: Peterborough Ware and Beaker pottery, flint blades, flakes and knife, antler and bone points, hammer stone, Romano-British pottery, marine shells, animal bones.

Date: Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (4)

14C: 9945 bp (OxA-5862) on worked badger tooth.

Bibliography:

Bronk-Ramsey, C. et al. (2002) Radiocarbon dates from the Oxford AMS system: Archaeometry Datelist 31. Archaeometry 44: 3 (supplement 1): 1-149.

Davies, M. (1978) Upper Kendrick's Cave, Great Orme. Archaeology in Wales 18: 34.

Davies, M. (1979) Upper Kendrick's Cave, Great Orme. Archaeology in Wales 19: 12-13.

Davies, M. (1979) Upper Kendrick's Cave, Great Orme: excavations of 1978. South Wales Caving Club Newsletter 91: 10-13.

Davies, M. (1983) The excavation of Upper Kendrick's Cave, Llandudno. Studies in Speleology 4: 45-52.

Rees, C. & Nash, G.H. (2017). Recent archaeological investigations at Kendrick's Upper Cave, Great Orme, Llandudno. Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society 27 2: 185-196.

Stone, T.A. (1994) A glimpse of Llandudno in prehistory. Journal of the Great Orme Exploration Society Supplement 2: 1-28.

Stone, T.A. & Davies, M. (1976) Upper Kendrick's Cave, Great Orme. Archaeology in Wales 16: 15.

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