Location

Site Name
Ravenscliff Cave
Parish
Pennard
Gower Region
South Mid-Gower
Latitude
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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
Badger - Meles meles, Fox - Vulpes vulpes, Hyaena - Crocuta crocuta, Lion - Panthera leo, Marten - Martes martes, Wild Cat - Felis sylvestris, Wolf - Canis lupus, Bison - Bison priscus, Hippopotamus - Hippopotamus amphibius, Soft-nosed Rhinoceros - Rhinoceros hemitoechus, Wild Horse - Equus caballus, Wild Pig - Sus scrofa, Straight-tusked Elephant - Elephas antiquus, Mammoth - Elephas primigenius, Water Vole - Arvicola amphibius
Notes

Bibliography

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Strahan, Aubrey. (1907) The Geology of the South Wales Coalfield:. Part IX, West Gower and the country around Pembury: being an account of the region comprised in sheet 246 of the map. London: H.M.S.O. (Memoirs / Geological Survey of Great Britain ;no. 246). Available at: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100629613 (Accessed: 23 March 2018).

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