Gough's Cave
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Nov 15, 2021 11:00 AM
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History
Gough's Cave is located in Cheddar Gorge. A hominin fossil commonly referred to as "Cheddar Man" was discovered in the cave in 1903.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/850427781
51.2819621, -2.765395
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Gough's Cave (13000 BC - 8000 BC)
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- Gough's Cave (English, modern)
- Gough's Cave located at Cheddar Gorge (unspecified date range)
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A large cave with evidence for prehistoric human activity, including the ritual processing of human bones. The so-called Cheddar Man was discovered in the cave in 1903.
Jeffrey Becker, 'Gough's Cave: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/850427781> [accessed: 11 December 2023]
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