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Gop Cave 1, Goy Cave


NGR: SJ 0860 8000
250 m.asl

Flintshire , North Wales
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Access The two caves are to found by following the public footpath up to Gop Cairn. The caves are directly below the Cairn and on the farmland of the tenant farmer
Description Archaeological remains were found some years ago and at the beginning of the century. A roomy entrance, then a passage leads to a small chamber with an aven in the roof.
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References
W. Boyd Dawkins, 1901, Archaeological Journal, LVIII, pp.322-341 On the cairn and Sepulchral Cave at Gop, near Prestatyn
Britain Underground, 1953
The Caves of North East Wales, Ebbs, Cris, June 2000
Cris Ebbs Caves of North Wales
Gazetteer of Human Remains in Caves
Arch. Camb.,vol.90, 194-200, 1935. The Gop Caves
BGS Archives: BCRA/201W/A/6, 1937 [as Goy Cave, Newmarket]
Proc.UBSS, 2020 28(2) Schulting,R.J, Prehistoric human remains (mainly) from the caves of Wales, pp. 188,190,194-196
Cambrian Cave Registry entry 912
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