Location
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- Site Name
- Bacon Hole
- Parish
- Pennard
- Gower Region
- South Mid-Gower
- Latitude
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- Longitude
- 0
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- Y
- Z
- 0
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Identification
- Position
- Entrance
- Entrance Height (m)
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- Entrance Width (m)
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- Type of Cave
- Archaeological, Palaeontological
- Access
Description
Discoveries
- Archaeology
- Ivory, Pottery
- Time Period-Culture
- Fauna
- Badger - Meles meles, Brown Bear - Ursus arctos, Cave Bear - Ursus spelauys, Fox - Vulpes vulpes, Hyaena - Crocuta crocuta, Polecat - Putorius putorius, Wolf - Canis lupus, Bison - Bison priscus, Red Deer - Cervus elaphus, Reindeer - Rangifer tarundus, Roe Deer - Capreolus capreolus, Soft-nosed Rhinoceros - Rhinoceros hemitoechus, Wild Ox - Bos primegenius, Wild Pig - Sus scrofa, Straight-tusked Elephant - Elephas antiquus, Water Vole - Arvicola amphibius
- Notes
Gallery
Bibliography
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