Dog Hole Cave
| Dog Hole | |
| Westmorland | |
|---|---|
 The cave entrance in January 2010 | |
| SD48268019 | |
| Co-ordinates: | 54°12’54"N, 2°47’39"W |
| Depth: | 39 feet[1] |
| Length: | 20 feet[2] |
| Geology: | Carboniferous limestone[3] |
Dog Hole Cave is a cave near Storth in Westmorland, and a cave of archaeologically significance.[4] Other names for the cave include Haverbrack Bank Pot,[5] Haverbrack Dog Hole,[2] Fairy Cave,[5] The Dog Hole[5] and Doghole Cave.[6] It consists of a largely excavated 39.4 feet (12.0 m) shaft formed in Carboniferous limestone with 19.7 feet (6.0 m) of steeply dipping phreatic tube at the bottom.[2][3]
The cave was originally excavated by J W ("Wilfred") Jackson in 1912; by local scouts in the 1950s; and by researchers from Liverpool John Moores University in 2003 and more recently. Jackson found domestic animal bones (dogs, pigs) some of which are in the Natural History Museum, and the scouts also found human bones.[4][6] The cave was gated in the 1980s to protect the archaeology, but inspection in 2003 showed that this had been destroyed.[6]
Radio carbon dating of the deposits have provided dates ranging from Romano-British to Early Mediæval.[6]
References
- ↑ Brook, Dave (1994). Northern Caves Volume 3. The Three Counties System and the North West. Skipton: Dalesman Publishing Company Ltd.. pp. 271. ISBN 1855680831.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Newton, Jim (November 2005). "Haverbrack Dog Hole". Red Rose Caving and Pothole Club Newsletter 42 (2). http://www.rrcpc.org.uk/newsletters/NL_V42_N2_A6.htm. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Morecambe Bay Natural Area profile". Natural England. http://www.naturalareas.naturalengland.org.uk/Science/natural/profiles%5CnaProfile118.pdf. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Wilkinson, David M.; Hannah J. O'Regan (2005). "A tale of two caves: the history of archaeological exploration at Haverbrack and Helsfell in southern Cumbria". http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/BIE/Cave_history.pdf. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "The Dog Hole". Geograph. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1681847. Retrieved 16 October 2011., quoting "Underground in Furness, Eric G. Holland 1967"
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 O'Regan, Hannah (2009). "Doghole Cave, Haverbrack". Liverpool John Moores University, Fossil Mammal Research Group. http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/RCEAP/81121.htm. Retrieved 16 October 2011.