Location
- Site Name
- Longhole
- Parish
- Port Eynon
- 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, Palaeontological
- Access
Description
Discoveries
- Archaeology
- Flint Tools, Flint Debitage
- Time Period-Culture
- Fauna
- Badger - Meles meles, Cave Bear - Ursus spelauys, Fox - Vulpes vulpes, Hyaena - Crocuta crocuta, Lion - Panthera leo, Marten - Martes martes, Otter - Lutra lultra, Polecat - Putorius putorius, Wild Cat - Felis sylvestris, Wolf - Canis lupus, Bison - Bison priscus, Irish Deer - Megaceros hibernicus, Red Deer - Cervus elaphus, Reindeer - Rangifer tarundus, Soft-nosed Rhinoceros - Rhinoceros hemitoechus, Woolly Rhinoceros - R. antiquitalis, Wild Horse - Equus caballus, Wild Pig - Sus scrofa, Straight-tusked Elephant - Elephas antiquus, Mammoth - Elephas primigenius, Mountain Hare - Lepus timidus, Rabbit - Oryctolagus cuniculus, Water Vole - Arvicola amphibius
- Notes
Gallery
Long Hole - Eastern entry to reserve_APG14.jpg
Long Hole_APG11.jpg
Long Hole_APG12.jpg
Long Hole_APG13.jpg
Long Hole_APG10.jpg
Long Hole_APG1.jpg
Long Hole_APG2.jpg
Long Hole_APG8.jpg
Long Hole_APG4.jpg
Long Hole_APG5.jpg
Long Hole_APG7.jpg
Long Hole_APG6.jpg
Long Hole_APG3.jpg
Long Hole (new standard of measurement)_APG9.jpg
Bibliography
- 1902014 Longhole harvard1 50 creator asc year 1 1 1 2180 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