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Picken's Hole

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The cave is 8 metres (26 ft) below the plateau and 27 metres (89 ft) above the valley floor. It is named after M. J. Picken who found teeth in earth thrown out of their sets in the area by badgers.
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teeth dated to about 4,800 years bp, were recovered from the cave. Faunal deposits of
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The British Palaeolithic: Human Societies at the Edge of the Pleistocene World
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Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society
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Index

Crook Peak
Mendip Hills
Somerset
scheduled monument
Middle Palaeolithic
Neolithic
spotted hyena
lion
Arctic fox
mammoth
woolly rhinoceros
horse
reindeer
suslik
northern vole
BP


Historic England
"Picken's Hole (1010715)"
National Heritage List for England
"Picken's Hole (Scragg's Hole), near White Rock, Compton Bishop"
"Picken's Hole, Crook Peak, Somerset: A Pleistocene Site"
ISBN
978-0-415-67455-3
David & Charles
ISBN
978-0-7153-6572-4
"Crook Peak to Shute Shelve Hill SSSI citation sheet"
51°17′28″N 2°51′59″W / 51.2910°N 2.8664°W / 51.2910; -2.8664

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