Picken's Hole
Picken's Hole (also known as Scragg's Hole) is a small cave on the southern side of Crook Peak in the Mendip Hills in the English county of Somerset. It has been designated as a scheduled monument.[1]
The cave is 8 metres (26 ft) below the plateau and 27 metres (89 ft) above the valley floor.[2] It is named after M.J. Picken who found teeth in earth thrown out of their sets in the area by badgers.[3]
A large number of Middle Palaeolithic artefacts, and two Neanderthal teeth dated to about 55,000 years BP, have been recovered from the cave.[1][4][5] Faunal deposits of spotted hyena, lion, Arctic fox, mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, horse, reindeer, suslik and northern vole (Microtus oeconomus) from approximately 35,000 BP have also been recovered.[6]
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External links
- Suvrey at cerberusspeleo.org
- Picken's Hole at mcra.org
