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St Robert's Cave

Knaresborough, North Yorkshire

A hermit's cave where a murder victim's skeleton was found.

St Robert of Knaresborough lived as a hermit in this riverside cave until his death in 1218. Centuries later, in 1758, a skeleton was found in the cave.

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When
1200s and 1758
Where
53.9960, -1.4550
Group
Caves & grottoes

Visiting

Free to visit, on a riverside path south of Knaresborough.

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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