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HER Number: | MDV124182 |
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Name: | Kent's Cavern: The Charcoal Cave |
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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 Settlement (Undated)
Full description
Torbay HER record (SMR record). SDV361984.
Imported from Torbay HER
Pengelly, W., 1884, Transactions of the Devonshire Association, p.322-9 (Article in Serial). SDV362708.
The Charcoal Cave. A streak of black matter was found, which yielded on analysis small rough pieces of stalagmitic matter, bits of charcoal, pieces of rough friable pottery, two human wisdom teeth, animal bones, the lower jaw of a fox and the remains of rodents. Human remains may have been preserved in a cinerary urn of which the potsherds found were fragments.
The cave earth yielded a small number of animal bones and 85 teeth. A heap of 600 rodent bones was found on the surface of the cave earth and nearly 800 stalagmitic bodies, like ill-shaped marbles, were found in a small recess in the wall of the southern branch with two hazel-nut shells and a piece of bone. A similar heap of about 100 marbles was found and several coprolites. One small flake of white flint was found in the southern branch in May 1872 in the first foot-level of cave earth with two hyena teeth.
Bones and teeth were found in the breccia in the central and southern branches, mostly of bear. Two further flint implements were found in the southern branch of the breccia near each other in May 1872:
1.The first was rude in form, and showed a small portion of the surface of the nodule from which it was made. It was of a dull cream colour and weighed less than other flints of the same size.
2. The second was of a pinkish cream colour with one surface nearly flat, the other very convex, retaining much of the surface of the original nodule. The tool had been broken where it lay.
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.322-9. |
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Associated Monuments
MDV124153 | Part of: Kent's Cavern, Ilsham Road, Torquay (Monument) |
MDV9712 | Related to: CAVE in the Parish of (Monument) |
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events: none recorded
Date Last Edited: | Feb 26 2019 7:09PM |
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