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Summary

Kent's cavern

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1010745: Kent's Cavern, Torquay

Other References/Statuses

• Torbay HER: MTO9710

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.308-15 (Article in Serial). SDV362708.

The Wolf's Cave. Canines of Machairodus latidens were found here, and twenty-five shells of pecten were found in the granular stalagmite.

The cave earth yielded numerous bones and teeth of the common mammals; and five flint implements:
1. A white lanceolate implement with a strong sub-central longitudinal ridge on one surface, slightly concave longitudinally and convex transversely on the other; it was reduced to an edge on both margins, rounded and rather blunt at one end, and abruptly truncated at the other. It was found in September 1871 in the fourth foot-level of cave earth.

2. A pale grey flint implement, longitudinally and transversely convex on one side, somewhat strongly concave lengthways, and slightly convex on the other. It had a long narrow oval form, with three ridges on its convex side and a thin edge all round the perimeter, except at one end which was rather blunt. It was found in September 1871 in the third foot-level of cave earth with the teeth of horse, hyena, rhinoceros, ox and bone fragments, scored with toothmarks.

3. A chert implement rudely quadrilateral in form was found in September 1871 in the first foot-level of cave earth with the teeth of horse and rhinoceros.

4. A strongly proportioned chert lanceolate implement, concave on one face, strongly carinated on the other; was truncated at one end, and pointed (but blunt) on the other, and was worked to an edge on two margins. It was found in September 1871 in the fourth foot-level of the cave earth with the teeth of hyena, horse, rhinoceros and bone fragments.

5. A much used somewhat irregular ovoid chert tool, unequally convex on its two faces, wrought to an edge all round its circumference was found in October 1871 in the third foot-level of cave earth.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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