Upper Black Hole
Location
- Site Name
- Upper Black 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
- Time Period-Culture
- Fauna
- Badger - Meles meles, Fox - Vulpes vulpes, Wild Pig - Sus scrofa
- Notes
Gallery
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Bibliography
- 1902014 Upper Blackhole 1 harvard1 50 creator asc year 1 1 1 2180 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(no date) Upper Blackhole, Rhossili, Swansea, Gazetteer of Caves, Fissures and Rock Shelters in Britain Containing Human Remains. 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