<< Our Photo Pages >> Carreg Cennen Cave - Cave or Rock Shelter in Wales in Carmarthenshire
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Natural PlacesSite Name: Carreg Cennen CaveCountry: Wales County: Carmarthenshire Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Carmarthen Nearest Village: Trapp
Map Ref: SN6683819064
Latitude: 51.854234N Longitude: 3.934869W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Marko visited on 17th Aug 2016 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 2
A trench dug in the floor allows ready access. Towards the end water drips into a natural basin. Source: Coflein
In the mid nineteenth century four mid fourth century Roman coins, together with a spindle whorl, were found in the debris below the cave mouth . In about 1907 bones of two adults and a child, together with a perforated horse tooth, were found within the stalagmite deposits in the cave. Three human teeth were recovered in 1980.
Cave earth deposits were noted in two of the other caves in the castle rock.
The human remains found in the castle cave are conventionally dated to the Upper Palaeolithic, the period before the end of the last Ice Age. Other Roman coins found in the castle may signify the presence of a settlement on the rock. As adapted in the castle period the cave may have served as as grotto and conversation piece, as well as a dove house."
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