Location

Site Name
Port Eynon Point Cave
Parish
Port Eynon
Gower Region
South-West Gower
Latitude
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Longitude
0
X
Y
Z
0
OSNG

Identification

Position

Port Eynon Point - offshore view_APG1.jpg

Entrance

Port Eynon Point- East Cave_APG2.jpg

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

Description

Discoveries

Archaeology
Time Period-Culture
Fauna
Mole - Talpa europaea, Water Shrew - Neomys usp., Bear - Ursus sp., Fox - Vulpes vulpes, Lion - Panthera leo, Wolf - Canis lupus, Red Deer - Cervus elaphus, Roe Deer - Capreolus capreolus, Woolly Rhinoceros - R. antiquitalis, Wild Horse - Equus caballus, Wild Ox - Bos primegenius, Mammoth - Elephas primigenius, Water Vole - Arvicola amphibius, Thrush - Turdus sp, Gull - Larus sp., Razorbill - Alca torda, Guillemot - Uria troile, Puffin - Fratercula artica
Notes

Bibliography

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