BONE CAVES

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

Conistone Dib

Also known as Gurling Trough


Bones

Human, ox verterbrae, dog.

Position in Cave

In undercut on side of gorge.

Identification

A. Raistrick

Location of Finds

?

Additional Notes

See this page for further detail.

Conistone with Kilnsey

Yorkshire

North Yorkshire

NGR: SD 984 676

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References

Anon (1998) A Gofer’s View. pp22-24 in UWFRA Anytime…Anywhere. The first fifty years of the Upper Wharefdale Fell Rescue Association. Skipton. UWFRA/Dalesman.

Murphy, P.J, & Chamberlain, A.T. (2020). A Roman dog from Conistone Dib, Upper Wharfedale, UK, and its palaeohydrological significance. Cave and Karst Science 47 (1): 39-40.

Article Author Graham Mullan