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Pont Newydd Cave, Pontnewydd Cave, Bont Newydd Cave, Bontnewydd Cave
NGR: SJ 01521 71029
100 m.asl
Conwy
, North Wales
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Cave |
| Access |
Immediately off the road, behind the Post Office. The entrance has a bricked wall. |
| Description |
A small cave, which has been extended recently to 35 metres. |
| History |
Boyd Dawkins 1874; Nat.Mus.Wales 1978 |
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| Hydrology |
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| Conservation |
NPRN: 306687
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SAM: DE116 |
SSSI: 147 |
GCR: 1268,1371 |
| Gallery |
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| Survey |
| SMC Yearbook, 1962/3 Survey. |
| NMW, 1991 |
| References |
| Edinburgh New Phil.Jnl., 4 (27), 40, 1883. Note |
| Jnl.Anth.Ins.3, 387. 1874. Occurrence of 'Le Moustier' type of implements |
| Cave Hunting (Macmillan), Dawkins, W.B., 1874, p.286. Mention of work in cave |
| QJGS 32, (10, 125, 91 No125, 1876. Correlation of cave deposits with drift |
| Early man in Britain and his place in the tertiary period, Dawkins, W.B., 1880 p.192 |
| Proc.Liverpool Geol.Soc., 4, (1), 59. 1879, Deposits |
| Geol.Mag., New Series, Decade 3, 4, p.42, 1887. Relation of drifts and Deposits |
| QJGS, 43, (109), 1887. Relation of drifts and deposits |
| QJGS, 54, (78), 1897, Archaeological Interest |
| Inventory of Ancient Monuments in Wales and Mon, IV, County of Denbighshire, 1914, p.26 |
| The Prehistoric and Roman remains of Denbighshire (Lewis), E. Davies, 1929, p.61. Location and Prehistory |
| Caves and Caving, 1, (1), 18, 1937. Location of Finds |
| British Caver, 7, 15, 1941. Short description extracted from Davies 1929 |
| Proc.Liv.Geol.Soc. 18, 70, 1942. Summary records of Pleistocene and Post-glacial mammalian from North Wales. |
| British Caver, 14, 74, 1946. Location of discovery and remains. |
| Britain Underground, 1953 |
| British Caving, Cullingford, C.H.D.(ed), (Routldege and Kegan Paul), 2ed, 1962, p.289. |
| Britain Underground (Dalesman), N. Thornber, A.H. & R.H. Stride, O.J. Myers. 1953. Location and Description. |
| SMCC Occasional Publication 2, 1960. Location, description and Survey. |
| Caving in North Wales (Private), Howden, P, 1962. Location and Description. |
| Caves in Wales and the Marches (Dalesman), D.W. Jenkins, A.M. Williams, 1963, 1ed. p.69. Location and description and brief details. |
| SMC Yearbook , 1962/3 Survey. |
| SMCC.Jnl. 4, (1), 9. 1966. Notes |
| BCRA Transactions 3(2), pp.112-116, 1976, Theya Molleson, Remains of Pleistocene man in Paviland and Pontnewydd Caves, Wales |
| CS v12(4), p.134, 1985, H.S.Green, Pontnewydd Cave - Continuing excavations at a Middle Pleistocene archaeological and hominid site in Wales |
| Ice Age Hunters, Stephen Green and Elizabeth Walker, Nat.Mus.Wales, 1991, pp.40-43 |
| The Caves of North East Wales, Ebbs, Cris, June 2000 |
| Neanderthals in Wales: Pontnewydd and the Elwy Valley Caves, Stephen Aldhouse-Green, Rick Peterson, Elizabeth A. Walker 2012 |
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Cris Ebbs Caves of North Wales
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Gazetteer of Human Remains in Caves
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| Cadw |
| BGS Archives: BCRA/201W/A/11, 1874/1937 |
| Search for further records |
Browse registry map |
Cambrian Cave Registry entry 893 |
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