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Ogof Y Pebyll Bone Cave

Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 00384m
Trust : Glamorgan Gwent
Community : Pencoed
Unitary authority : Bridgend
NGR : SS95108074
Site Type (preferred type first) : Unknown Cave
Status : SSSI

Summary :
Cave entrance faces SE and is 1.4m high x 1.4m wide, the passage from it becoming very narrow & blocked after 11m. See also PRNs 01648m, 04210m and 04211m. Flint flakes and mammalian fauna assemblage recovered from early explorations.

Description :
Cave entrance faces SE & is 1.4m high x 1.6m wide, the passage from it becoming very narrow & blocked after 11m. Some flint flakes were found in early exploration. Teeth of "hyena, wolf, fox, hare, rabbit, sheep bones, teeth of cow, one deer's tooth, and many mouse, rat, hedgehog and bat". Also BA arrowhead found, given own PRN (1648M).

Sources :
01/PM List/RCHM/1976/Glam Invent/Vol1 No18
02/PM Desc Text/Evans CJO/1944/Glam Hist & Topography/p291
08/PM List/NCC/1979/Stat Sites Nat Parks 1949 Mid Glam p8,18 Map
09/MM Record Card/OS//1981/SS 98 SE 4/
07/PH Desc Text/Stone/1884/Trans Cardiff Natur Soc Vol16 pp66-7
04/AP Oblique/West Air/1977/24099
03/MM Record Card/OS/1956/SS 98 SE 4
05/MM Record Card/OS/1976/SS 98 SE 4
06/MM Note/UCC Archaeol Soc/1975/M4 Survey
10/PM List/Cadw/1989/SAM Lists

Events :
E000180 : Ogof Y Pebyll Bone Cave (year : 1883)

Related records
National Monuments Record NPRN 93270
GGAT Historic Environment Record (HER) 01648m
GGAT Historic Environment Record (HER) 004210-11m

Compiled date : 01-03-1977


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