Diggings.
Jim Newton, Jim Farrer, and Bruce Redpath.
Mention a
cave or Pothole to Jim Newton and he is your man.
An
archaeological group did just that earlier this year, and so Jim and his
companions became involved.
The cave in question
appears at the moment to be split level, divided by a calcite floor and it
appears to go; but.
The
archaeological group are excited, to put it mildly, by the results of their
labours. They have, as is usual in their circles, excavated numerous bones both
ancient and modern, along with much modern rubbish from the level above the
calcite floor. Below this under the floor they found glacial fill, this
contained bones and artifacts. These included a tooth thought to be that of a
bear, hyena, or wolf. A flint scraper was found along with their FIND. This the
cause of their excitement, “a flint blade”, thought to be dated at 13000 bp (I
don’t know if that is a miss print Ed.). If this dating is correct it will mean
a significant addition to prehistory.
Jim having
been into the cave is now baulked, his mole like, or should it be terrier like
activities having to wait until the archaeological interests have been served.
Dick Wade
p.s. Since I wrote the above, a bronze
spearhead, in excellent condition, along with several more stone tools have
been found.
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