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Great Onns Hole
Hob Uid: 194599
Location : Somerset Sedgemoor Cheddar
Grid Ref : ST4679053930
Summary : A cave or "open hole" sited 300 feet above the road at Cheddar. Described as ransacked, and later used as a World War II operational base, there are no certain records of the finds. However, Western-Super-Mare Museum contains some finds which may have come from the site, including a flint knife with bone haft, iron and bronze buckles, Iron Age potsherds and bone spindle whorls.
More information : [ST 4675 5393] GREAT OONS HOLE [G.T.]. (1) 300' above the road, an open hole. Ransacked, with no record of finds: but Upper pa. flints which may have come from this site, including a flint knife hafted to a bone handle, are in the Weston-super-Mare Museum. It also contains iron and bronze buckles, E.I.A. pottery and bone spindle whorls. (2-4) The entrance to Great Oons hole is at ST 4679 5393. Positioned at 1:2500. (5) Additional reference. (6) Natural cave, with modifications, used as operational base.Great Oone's Cave - among trees on left bank at head of slope, 160 feet above coach park beside Cooper's Hole which is 200 yards up Cheddar Gorge from Gough's Cave on left bank at road level. (7)

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Source details : OS 6" 1960.
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Source details : Balch, HE. 1947. Mendip - Cheddar, its Gorge & Caves, pp 46-50
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Source Number : 3
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Source details : Dobson, DP. 1931. Archaeology of Somerset, p236
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Source Number : 5
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Source details : F1 GHP 06-APR-66
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Source Number : 5a
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Source details : Stanton, WI. 1965. Map of Caves of Cheddar Gorge.
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Source Number : 6
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Source Number : 7
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Source details : DOB anti invasion database migration UID 1416614, 26 JUN 2006
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Upper Palaeolithic
Display Date : Upper Palaeolithic
Monument End Date : -10000
Monument Start Date : -40000
Monument Type : Cave
Evidence : Conjectural Evidence

Monument Period Name : Iron Age
Display Date : Iron Age
Monument End Date : 43
Monument Start Date : -800
Monument Type : Cave
Evidence : Conjectural Evidence

Monument Period Name : Prehistoric
Display Date : Prehistoric
Monument End Date : 43
Monument Start Date : -500000
Monument Type : Cave
Evidence : Conjectural Evidence

Monument Period Name : 20th Century
Display Date : World War II
Monument End Date : 1945
Monument Start Date : 1939
Monument Type : Auxiliary Unit Operational Base, Auxiliary Hide, Cave
Evidence : Subterranean Feature, Enhanced Natural Feature

Monument Period Name : Uncertain
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Monument Type : Cave
Evidence : Conjectural Evidence

Components and Objects:

Period : Upper Palaeolithic
Component Monument Type : Cave
Object Type : LITHIC IMPLEMENT, KNIFE
Object Material : Flint, Bone

Period : Iron Age
Component Monument Type : Cave
Object Type : SPINDLE WHORL, VESSEL
Object Material : Bone, Pottery

Period : Prehistoric
Component Monument Type : Cave
Object Type : KNIFE
Object Material : Flint, Bone

Period : Uncertain
Component Monument Type : Cave
Object Type : BUCKLE
Object Material : Iron, Bronze

Related Records from other datasets:

External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (National No.)
External Cross Reference Number : 13261
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External Cross Reference Source : DoB Non Anti Invasion Database UID
External Cross Reference Number : S0000453
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : ST 45 SE 12
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Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1966-04-06
End Date : 1966-04-06

Associated Activities :
Activity type : EXCAVATION
Start Date : 1976-01-01
End Date : 1976-12-31

Historic England Research Records

Great Onns Hole