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Cloud Quarry - "at the top of a steep wooded slope overlooking the paper-mill", Slaughterford.
NGR: | ST 8450 7372 |
WGS84: | 51.46224, -2.22450 |
Length: | 50 m |
Depth: | 0 m |
Altitude: | 118 m |
Tags: | Cave, Archaeo, Karst |
Registry: | wbc |
A seven metre high rift may be followed for 15 metres to a too tight connection.
Alternate Names: Cloud Quarry Cave - No. 2
Notes: Many human and animal bones were found here (See UBSS Poceedings 1925). Biological collection by John Tucker (1960) of Lepidoptera and Arana.
Surveys:
Guy's Rift, Slaughterford, Self, C.A. & Boycott, A., 1999
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This entry was last updated: 2009-07-27 10:53:56
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