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Bacon Hole

Southgate, Gower

A sea cave with bones of elephants, and mysterious red stripes.

Bacon Hole is a cave on the Gower cliffs where the bones of Ice Age animals, including elephants, rhinos and bears, have been found. In 1912 red stripes on the wall were hailed as Ice Age cave art, but they may be natural or more recent.

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When
Ice Age onwards
Where
51.5650, -4.0820
Group
Caves & grottoes

Visiting

Reached carefully along the cliffs from Pennard. Bats roost inside.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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