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<< Our Photo Pages >> Foxhole Slade Cave - Cave or Rock Shelter in Wales in South Glamorgan

Submitted by coldrum on Tuesday, 08 October 2013  Page Views: 9915

Natural PlacesSite Name: Foxhole Slade Cave Alternative Name: Foxhole Cave, Fox Hole Cave
Country: 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
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2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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4Short walk on a footpath
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1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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Foxhole Slade Cave
Foxhole Slade Cave submitted by h_fenton : Foxhole Slade Cave 13 April 2012 (Vote or comment on this photo)
Superficially a 5m wide, 2m-3m deep rock shelter, the cave can in fact be traced back through a narrow opening as a passage 20m or so in length. It contains a sequence of deposits, several metres in thickness, filling the cave almost to its roof

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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Foxhole Slade Cave
Foxhole Slade Cave submitted by h_fenton : Inside the passage at Foxhole Slade Cave. 13 April 2012 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Foxhole Slade Cave
Foxhole Slade Cave submitted by h_fenton : Foxhole Slade Cave 13 April 2012 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Foxhole Slade Cave
Foxhole Slade Cave submitted by h_fenton (Vote or comment on this photo)

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SS4386 : Foxhole Slade by Bill Boaden
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SS4385 : Geology on Gower by Jeremy Bolwell
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Mesolithic and Neolithic Human Remains from Foxhole Cave, Gower, South Wales by Andy B on Tuesday, 08 October 2013
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This paper presents an overview of the results of two brief excavation seasons (2008 and 2010) at Foxhole Cave, Gower, south Wales, placing them into the wider context of mid-Holocene Britain. No prehistoric pottery was found and the few pieces of worked flint recovered are diagnostic of the Mesolithic period.

Typically for the Carboniferous limestone caves of Gower, bone was well preserved, however, and though much of the material in the heavily disturbed upper metre or so of the deposits was modern sheep and rabbit, scattered fragments representing the remains of at least six humans were also recovered, of which two have been directly radiocarbon-dated using accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS 14C) to the Late Mesolithic and two to the earlier Neolithic (the remaining two providing Romano-Britishand medieval dates).

Their associated stable carbon and nitrogen isotope values indicate a significant difference in diet between the two periods (contrary to the results from an earlier excavation in 1997 ), with marine foods contributing around half of the protein for the Mesolithic individuals and little or none for the Neolithic individuals. The new results are consistent with those from Caldey Island, Pembrokeshire, some 30km to the west. The floor of the cave has still not been reached at around 2m depth; limited investigation of the lowermost levels has yielded a Pleistocene fauna (including reindeer, aurochs or bison and collared lemming) with dates back to approx 33,500 cal BC, though with no definite evidence for human activity so far.

A small, dark-stained fragment of human cranium was recovered from what may be pre-Holocene levels, but this failed to produce sufficient collagen for dating. In addition to a marked dietary shift, the combined stable isotope and dating programme provides further support for an equally striking temporal gap of some two millennia between the Mesolithic and Neolithic use of caves for burial.

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Rick Schulting, Linda Fibiger, Richard Macphail, Rowan McLaughlin, Emily Murray, Catherine Price and Elizabeth A Walker (2013). Mesolithic and Neolithic Human Remains from Foxhole Cave, Gower, South Wales. The Antiquaries Journal, 93, pp 1-23 doi:10.1017/S000358151300019X
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