BONE CAVES

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

Rumbling Hole


Bones

“Long dead cat.”

Position in Cave

In the ‘Dead Bobbin Series’ in a small chamber part way along a rift passage at the base of the 2nd pitch.

Identification

?

Location of Finds

?

Additional Notes

A photograph of the cat bones appears in Thorp, 2011.

Leck Fell

Yorkshire

North Yorkshire

NGR: SD 671 791

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References

Thorp, J. (2011) Preliminary report on ancient bones from Shuttleworth Pot. pp21-33 in Monk, P. (ed.) Shuttleworth Pot into Witches II. Council of Northern Caving Clubs.

Ramsey, D. (2008) Rumbling Extension. Descent 200: 13.

Swire, P. (2009) The Dead Bobbin Series, Rumbling Hole, Leck Fell. Journal of the Red Rose cave and Pothole Club 10: 311-315.

Article Author Graham Mullan