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HOYLE'S MOUTH CAVE

Site Details



NPRN
304237
Map Reference
SN10SW
Grid Reference
SN11190032
Unitary (Local) Authority
Pembrokeshire
Old County
Pembrokeshire
Community
Penally
Type of Site
CAVE
Broad Class
Unassigned
Period
Multiperiod

Site Description


NAR SN10SW13

Natural cave from which excavations, from 1862-1878/9 and 1968 (Savory 1974), revealed 'Later Upper Palaeolithic' to earlier Iron Age, Romano-British & later material: for more recent investigations see Aldhouse Green 1996.

For Little Hoyle see Nprn305459.

Sources: Savory 1974 (AC 122 1973), 18-34;
Aldhouse Green 1996 (AW 36), 70-1.

J.Wiles 15.11.04

Visited by T. Driver, RCAHMW, 16th Nov 2012.