BONE CAVES

A Gazetteer of Vertabrate Remains From Caves in the Yorkshire Dales Referenced In Caving Club Journals and Allied Literature

Dunald Mill Hole


Bones

human skull (juvenile).

Position in Cave

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Identification

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Location of Finds

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Additional Notes

Dated to 6-225 AD by Police and coroner’s office. Recovery of the skull by the Cave Rescue Organisation is recorded as incident 70 on their incidents list for 2014.

Nether Kellet

Lancashire

North West

NGR: SD 5158 6763

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References

Ashmead, P. (1965) Dunald Mill Hole. The Red Rose Cave and Pothole Club Journal 3: 11-14.

Cameron, J., Arthurs, D., Cornhill, S., Morris, J. and Peterson, R. (2019) Human remains from Dunald Mill Hole, Nether Kellet, Lancashire, UK. Cave and Karst Science 46 (2): 69-73.

Smith, J.P. (1890) Paper on Dunald Mill Hole, read before the Barrow Naturalists’ Field Club, 1889. Furness Lore: Transactions of the Barrow Naturalists’ Field Club.

Stevens, G. (1963) Dunald Mill Hole. Oxford University Caving Club Proceedings 2.

Walsh, A. (2016) Dunald Mill Hole. The Red Rose Cave and Pothole Club Journal 11: 121-125.

West, A. (1796) A description of Dunald-Mill-Hole. Addenda Article V, in T. West: A Guide to the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire. 6th edition. London: Richardson and Kendal: Pennington.

Article Author Graham Mullan