Location

Site Name
North Hill Tor Cave (Nottle)
Parish
Cheriton
Gower Region
North/Central Gower
Latitude
0
Longitude
0
X
Y
Z
0
OSNG

Identification

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

Description

Discoveries

Archaeology
Flint Tools
Time Period-Culture
Fauna
Bear - Ursus sp., Hyaena - Crocuta crocuta, Lion - Panthera leo, 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).
Davies, J.D. (2011) A History of W. Gower, Glamorganshire PT. 2. Historical Notices of the Parishes of Llanmadoc and Cheriton, PT. 3. Historical Notices of the Parishes ... the Parishes of Penrice, Oxwich & Nicholaston. Lightning Source UK Ltd. Download
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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