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Site name Lesser Garth Cave, Pentyrch

Site number 372

Burial codes 4001 4004 4008 4021 4023 4026 4028 4030 4035 4042 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4098 4101 4105 4112 4128 4143 4151 4166 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A cave excavated but ill-recorded in 1912 and 1922. Excavations in 1963-64 showed long but intermittent use of the cave. A series of 10 bucket and barrel shaped urns of late Wessex biconical urn tradition was found, most in a calcited deposit at one side of the passage between the 2 main chambers; in association were several bone tools (a weaving comb, a needle and awl in near perfect condition, and a few pieces of unworked flint). Human skeletal material of a young male adult was found at the bottom of a 6m deep crevice, with pottery including Bronze Age knobbed potsherds: they were not stratified - the theory advanced is that they represented clearance prior to later use by Iron Age and Romano-British occupants. The animal bones were of cattle, pigs and sheep or goat.

Remains/Period Y4

County Mid Glamorgan

Region SW

National grid square ST

X coordinate 126

Y coordinate 822

Bibliographic source Savory 1964-6, Hussey 1967

Query

Site name	Lesser Garth Cave, Pentyrch
Site number	372
Burial codes	4001 4004 4008 4021 4023 4026 4028 4030 4035 4042 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4098 4101 4105 4112 4128 4143 4151 4166 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A cave excavated but ill-recorded in 1912 and 1922. Excavations in 1963-64 showed long but intermittent use of the cave. A series of 10 bucket and barrel shaped urns of late Wessex biconical urn tradition was found, most in a calcited deposit at one side of the passage between the 2 main chambers; in association were several bone tools (a weaving comb, a needle and awl in near perfect condition, and a few pieces of unworked flint). Human skeletal material of a young male adult was found at the bottom of a 6m deep crevice, with pottery including Bronze Age knobbed potsherds: they were not stratified - the theory advanced is that they represented clearance prior to later use by Iron Age and Romano-British occupants. The animal bones were of cattle, pigs and sheep or goat.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Mid Glamorgan
Region	SW
National grid square	ST
X coordinate	126
Y coordinate	822
Bibliographic source	Savory 1964-6, Hussey 1967