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Natural PlacesSite Name: Foxhole Slade Cave Alternative Name: Foxhole Cave, Fox Hole CaveCountry: Wales County: South Glamorgan Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Swansea Nearest Village: Port Eynon
Map Ref: SS43848601
Latitude: 51.551308N Longitude: 4.25372W
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 |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
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 |
0 | No data. |
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 |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Geojazz visited on 6th Aug 2021 - their rating: Cond: 4 Access: 1 Only logged today but visited several years ago now. Quite a scramble to get to it and had to wait for low tide.
Partial examination has produced evidence of early-mesolithic occupation from a scree deposit overlying the Pleistocene deposit. There is potential for recovery of undisturbed palaeolithic material at greater depth.
Source: Coflein
Note: Fragments of seven people were recovered during the 2008/10 excavations, of which two date to Late Mesolithic and two to the earlier Neolithic. Isotope results indicate they got half their protein from the sea, more than previously thought. A link to the full paper is below.
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