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Hay Wood Rock Shelter

Hay Wood, Oldmixon.

NGR:ST 34001 58256
WGS84:51.31956, -2.94845
Length:9 m
Depth:3 m
Altitude:91 m
Tags:Cave
Registry:westmendip

A rock shelter which was the site of a number of Neolithic Burials. The site was used intermittently from the Mesolithic through to the Iron Age.

Alternate Names: Hay Wood Cave, Hey Wood Cave

Notes: Excavated by the ACG in the early 1960's.

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