NGR: SD 718 973
BONES: Red deer, roe deer, wolf, cattle, sheep, domestic pig, dog, human.
POSITION IN CAVE: On the floor of the Wolf Den.
IDENTIFICATION: A. Chamberlain, University of Sheffield.
LOCATION OF FINDS: in situ.
NOTES: Radiocarbon dates on roe deer bones give a late Medieval date. A piece of human skull was radiocarbon dated to 3167 ± 55 bp (AA22519), corresponding to a calibrated date of between 1500 and 1400 BC. Another human skull fragment was subsequently radiocarbon dated to 1865 ± 40 bp (OxA-7450) which places this particular find firmly in the Romano-British period.
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