Cheddar Gorge
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Ryan Horne
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Last modified
Jul 25, 2016 12:08 PM
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History
tags:
limestone
The Cheddar Gorge is a limestone gorge in the Mendip Hills, near Somerset, England. The gorge and its many caves are the site of human activity dating back to the Upper Paleolithic.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/535275913
51.2857067, -2.7543895
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Cheddar Gorge (4000 BC - 2500 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Gough's Cave located at Cheddar Gorge (unspecified date range)
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Cheddar Man, the oldest complete skeleton found in Britain, dates to ca. 9,000 years ago.
Jeffrey Becker, and Ryan Horne, 'Cheddar Gorge: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2016 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/535275913> [accessed: 19 April 2024]
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