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Summary

Kent's cavern. Rounded stones were found in the cave earth, not derivable from the cavern hill. Two stone tools were also found:- part of a whetstone was found on 17th may 1865 in the first foot level: a piece of purplish-grey grit. It stood in a vertical position in a small cavity in the north wall of the great chamber. A hammer-stone in the form of a flattened spheroid of coarse red sand- stone was also found on 29th august 1865.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1010745: Kent's Cavern, Torquay

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX96SW/4/19

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 698000 BC to 42 AD (Between))

Full description

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV316953.

Kent's cavern. Rounded stones were found in the cave earth, not derivable from the cavern hill. Two stone tools were also found:- part of a whetstone was found on 17th may 1865 in the first foot level: a piece of purplish-grey grit. It stood in a vertical position in a small cavity in the north wall of the great chamber. A hammer-stone in the form of a flattened spheroid of coarse red sand- stone was also found on 29th august 1865.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV316954.

Pengelly, w. /tda/16(1884)203/the literature of kent's cavern, part 5.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV316955.

Evans, j. /ancient stone implements/(1872)457,fig.402.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds

• FDV3399 - TOOL (Lower Palaeolithic to Unknown - 698000 BC)

Associated Events: none recorded

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