BONE CAVES

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

Ingleborough Cave


Bones

Woolly rhinoceros lower pre-molar (Coelodnta antiquitatis).

Position in Cave

Long Gallery, beyond show cave limit.

Identification

Alyson Armstrong, Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley.

Location of Finds

Alyson Brook, Bradford Pothole Club.

Additional Notes

In a typical Dales cave interior deposit. Probably an isolated find having travelled some distance through the cave. Range approximately 50-25 ka in Britain.

Ingleborough

Yorkshire

North Yorkshire

NGR: SD 754 710

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References

BROOK, A. (2004) Monster find in Ingleborough Cave. Descent 176: 13.

SPEIGHT, A. (2002) Digging here, there and everywhere! Descent 164: 9.

Article Author Graham Mullan