Location

Site Name
Upper Black Hole
Parish
Rhossili
Gower Region
South-West Gower
Latitude
0
Longitude
0
X
Y
Z
0
OSNG

Identification

Position
Entrance
Entrance Height (m)
0
Entrance Width (m)
0
Type of Cave
Archaeological
Access

Description

Discoveries

Archaeology
Human Remains, Inhumation
Time Period-Culture
Fauna
Badger - Meles meles, Fox - Vulpes vulpes, Wild Pig - Sus scrofa
Notes

Bibliography

Anon (no date) Upper Blackhole, Rhossili, Swansea, Gazetteer of Caves, Fissures and Rock Shelters in Britain Containing Human Remains. Available at: http://caveburial.ubss.org.uk/wales/upperblackhole.htm (Accessed: 7 March 2020).
Davies, M. (1984) ‘Upper Blackhole’, William Pengelly Cave Studies Trust Newsletter, pp. 7–8.
Davies, M. (1985) ‘Upper Blackhole - a new cave archaeological site in Gower’, South Wales Caving Club Newsletter, pp. 18–19.
Davies, M. (1983) ‘Upper Blackhole, Overton’, Archaeology in Wales, 23, p. 16.
Davies, M. (1989) ‘Recent advances in cave archaeology in southwest Wales’, in T. Ford (ed.) Limestones and Caves of Wales. Cambridge University Press. Available at: http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/geomorphology-and-physical-geography/limestones-and-caves-wales?format=PB (Accessed: 30 June 2016).
Ford, T. (ed.) (2011) Limestones and Caves of Wales. Cambridge University Press. Available at: http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/geomorphology-and-physical-geography/limestones-and-caves-wales?format=PB (Accessed: 30 June 2016).

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