Location
- Site Name
- Port Eynon Point Cave
- Parish
- Port Eynon
- Gower Region
- South-West 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
- 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
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Bibliography
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