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Silklake Quarry Fissures

Easton, Portland.

NGR:SY 6973 7165
WGS84:50.54383, -2.42855
Length:Not recorded
Depth:Not recorded
Altitude:Not recorded
Tags:Cave
Registry:mcr-d

Pleistocene terrestrial mammal (inc. human) bones found here were reported in 1863 by T. D. Allen - though bizarrely as having been weathered out of the Jurassic marine limesone!

Alternate Names: None recorded.

Notes: Mass-movement (Gull) cave

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