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HER Number: | MDV124156 |
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Name: | Kent's Cavern: Southwest Chamber West |
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Summary
Kent's cavern
Location
Grid Reference: | SX 934 641 |
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Map Sheet: | SX96SW |
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Admin Area | Torbay |
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Civil Parish | Torbay |
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District | Torbay |
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Ecclesiastical Parish | ST.MARYCHURCH |
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Protected Status
Other References/Statuses
Monument Type(s) and Dates
- CAVE (Lower Palaeolithic to Roman - 500000 BC to 409 AD)
Full description
Torbay HER record (SMR record). SDV361984.
Imported from Torbay HER
Pengelly, W., 1884, Transactions of the Devonshire Association, p.692-3 (Article in Serial). SDV362708.
Southwest Chamber West
In the enormous accumulation of stalagmites were found some pieces of charred wood.
From cave earth in a small recess in the limestone wall, sealed up with a thick, granular stalagmite a good flint implement was found. It was broken into four parts, and lay with the teeth of bear, horse and fox. Also found in the cave earth was a flint implement of lanceolate type, and thirteen molar teeth of horse, a canine of hyena, and a gnawed bone, strongly carinated on one face, sharply pointed at one end, rounded at the other, and keen-edged around the perimeter.
A white flint was found in the third-foot level of the cave earth; a second was found in a recess of the limestone wall of the chamber in the first-foot level of the cave earth. It had been broken by workmen, and was lying with the bones and teeth of horse, hyena and fox.
Sources / Further Reading
SDV361984 | SMR record: Torbay HER record. |
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SDV362708 | Article in Serial: Pengelly, W.. 1884. Transactions of the Devonshire Association. . 16. p.692-3. |
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Associated Monuments
MDV124153 | Part of: Kent's Cavern, Ilsham Road, Torquay (Monument) |
MDV9686 | Related to: CAVE DEPOSIT in the Parish of (Monument) |
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events: none recorded
Date Last Edited: | Feb 26 2019 7:08PM |
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