Location

Site Name
Red Fescue Hole
Parish
Rhossili
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
Access

Description

Discoveries

Archaeology
Human Remains, Inhumation, Flint Tools, Flint Debitage, Other Artefacts
Time Period-Culture
Neolithic
Fauna
Notes

Bibliography

Davies, M. (1986) ‘Red Fescue Hole, Gower’, William Pengelly Cave Studies Trust Newsletter, pp. 1–5.
Davies, M. (1986) ‘Red Fescue Hole, Rhossili’, Archaeology in Wales, 26, p. 34.
Higham, Z. (2015) Interred in the Deep-delved Earth: An Analysis of Dated Human Remains From British Caves. Exam Number: B015287. University of Edinburgh. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/31139889/Interred_in_the_Deep-delved_Earth_An_Analysis_of_Dated_Human_Remains_From_British_Caves (Accessed: 28 February 2020).
Oldham, T. (1978) Caves of Gower. Anne Oldham (Privately printed). Available at: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Caves-Gower-Tony-Oldham/dp/0904899071 (Accessed: 8 July 2015).
Oldham, T. (2003) Caves of Gower. Anne Oldham (Privately printed). Available at: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Caves-Gower-Tony-Oldham/dp/0904899071 (Accessed: 8 July 2015).
Schulting, R.J. and Richards, M.P. (2002) ‘Finding the coastal Mesolithic in southwest Britain: AMS dates and stable isotope results on human remains from Caldey Island, south Wales’, Antiquity, 76(294), pp. 1011–1025. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00091821.

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