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Summary

Kent's cavern. Finds in the granular stalagmite almost everywhere in the cavern. Stones of various kinds; impressions of ferns; shells of cockles and cuttle-fish; bones of bear, mammoth, hyena, rhinoceros, horse, fox and man. Flint flakes and cores. One of the flints had the appearance of a fragment of a polished celt or axe.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1010745: Kent's Cavern, Torquay

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX96SW/4/4

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• CAVE DEPOSIT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Neolithic - 698000 BC to 2201 BC (Between))

Full description

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV316392.

Kent's cavern. Finds in the granular stalagmite almost everywhere in the cavern. Stones of various kinds; impressions of ferns; shells of cockles and cuttle-fish; bones of bear, mammoth, hyena, rhinoceros, horse, fox and man. Flint flakes and cores. One of the flints had the appearance of a fragment of a polished celt or axe.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV316393.

Pengelly, w. /tda/14(1882)692, 694/notes on notices of the geology and palaeontology of devonshire, part 9.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV316394.

Pengelly, w. /tda/16(1884)200, 220-221/the literature of kent's cavern, part 5.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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