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Cockles Wood Lower Cave

Cockles Wood, Nettlebridge.

NGR:ST 64635 48537
WGS84:51.23491, -2.50792
Length:15 m
Depth:5 m
Altitude:180 m
Tags:Cave, Archaeo, Lost
Registry:mcr-en

Rift in Dolomitic Conglomerate, parallel with Upper Cave

Alternate Names: Nettlebridge Fissure

Notes: Excavated by Downside School, 1947-1950. Yielded Neolithic and Bronze Age remains. Largely filled.

Surveys:
Cockles Wood Cave, nettlebridge, Anon, 1948

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