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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 |
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