BONE CAVES

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

Sell Gill Holes


Bones

Human pelvis.

Position in Cave

In Main Chamber.

Identification

Manchester University

Location of Finds

?

Additional Notes

Recorded in the incident list forming appendix 2 of Eyre & Frankland (1988) as incident No. 116 14/10/1965: “Human bones found - 200 years old!”

Penyghent

Yorkshire

North Yorkshire

NGR: SD 811 743

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References

Eyre, J. & Frankland, J. (1988) Race Against Time: A history of the Cave rescue Organisation. Cumbria. Lyon Books.

Melvin, M. (1966) Sell Gill Holes, Ribblesdale. The Speleologist II (6) (February/March): 12.

Article Author Graham Mullan