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Aveline's Hole
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Submitted byAndy B
AddedFeb 03 2004
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Description At more than 10,000 years old, Aveline's Hole in the Mendip Hills (Somerset) is Britain's earliest cemetery. Dr Rick Schulting of Queen's University, Belfast, holds an example of the remains found at the site.

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Andy B
(2011-08-11)
The claim for "Britain's earliest cemetery" has now been made by Somerset county council based on carbon dating of some skulls from Greylake
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=29704

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