Savory�s Hole
PRN 25360
This is situated in the upper valley, above the Narrows. At present the entrance is practically filled with sediment, although very low crawls lead off. The cave is clearly in current use as a den by animals. It was dug, in the hope of finding new caverns, by the MNRC in 1913, when they uncovered the remains of three human skeletons at a depth of eighteen inches, and pottery and a flint in an upper layer. A small bone fragment had a series of incised lines (Balch 1913). In 1915 Balch describes the strenuous work of �two new helpers� opening up the entrance. When the excavation could continue after the war, they found more human remains, a large number of animal bones and a round hammer-stone. At six feet below the original floor level they came upon a bed of stalagmited stones (Balch 1919).
Further remains in the museum were collected by Eric Bird in 1937 and 1939. The fauna includes reindeer. In 1958 McBurney dug a 5 by 5 feet sounding immediately under the entrance overhang, but the only finds he records are a few fragments of split limb bones of large mammals. |
