Location

Site Name
Forester's Cave
Parish
Pennard
Gower Region
South Mid-Gower
Latitude
0
Longitude
0
X
Y
Z
0
OSNG

Identification

Position

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Entrance

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Entrance Height (m)
0
Entrance Width (m)
0
Type of Cave
Palaeontological
Access

Description

Discoveries

Archaeology
Time Period-Culture
Fauna
Woolly Rhinoceros - R. antiquitalis
Notes

Bibliography

Allen, E.E. and Rutter, J.G. (1948) Gower Caves: A Survey of the Gower Caves with an Account of Recent Excavations, Part 2. Welsh Guides. Available at: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZNNQOgAACAAJ&dq=inauthor:%22J.+G.+Rutter%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=bwicVcu5EcHYU-mYqKAL&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAg (Accessed: 7 July 2015).
Allen, E.E. and Rutter, J.G. (1946) Gower Caves: A Survey of the Gower Caves with an Account of Recent Excavations, Part 1. Vaughan Thomas. Available at: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XC8nkgAACAAJ&dq=inauthor:%22J.+G.+Rutter%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=bwicVcu5EcHYU-mYqKAL&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA (Accessed: 7 July 2015).
Ball, K. (2016) ‘Geology of the Gower Bone Caves’, South Wales Caving Club Newsletter, pp. 55–64.
Falconer, H. (1860) ‘On the Ossiferous Caves of the Peninsula of Gower, in Glamorganshire, South Wales: With an Appendix, on a Raised Beach in Mewslade Bay, and the Occurrence of the Boulder-clay on Cefn-y-bryn; by J. Prestwich, Esq., F.R.S., Treas. G.S.’, Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 16(1–2), pp. 487–491. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.JGS.1860.016.01-02.66.
Murchison, C. (1868) Palaeontological memoirs and notes of H. Falconer, with a biographical sketch of the author Vol I. London: Robert Hardwicke. Available at: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/104175#page/11/mode/1up (Accessed: 9 February 2018).
Murchison, C. (1868) Palaeontological memoirs and notes of H. Falconer, with a biographical sketch of the author Vol II. London: Robert Hardwicke. Available at: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/104176#page/11/mode/1up.

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