Cook�s Hill Hole
PRN 24335
The entrance was dug open by Westminster Speleological Group in 1950 (Barrington and Stanton 1977). It is at the western end of the cliff line in Hope Wood, not far from the present car-park. The entrance slot drops into rift passage that slopes down to a small chamber. It passes, on the way, a small tube going to a second entrance. The cave was examined by Edmund Mason in 1951, who found a fairly complete skeleton, a piece of Romano-British olla, and sherds belonging to Middle and Late Bronze Age vessels. A flint scraper was found outside the cave. The skeleton was in a crouched position and corresponded to a male with a stature of about 5 feet 3 inches (Mason D. 1952). |
