Kinsey Cave, Yorkshire

Kinsey Cave is a Palaeolithic cave on High Scar above Giggleswick Scar, Yorkshire, in the West Riding. Excavations have revealed not only Bronze Age and Roman remains but also stratified material of Later Upper Palaeolithic type. The finds comprise tools and waste flakes of flint and chert, an antler point and fragmentary human remains. The cave is within the council area of North Yorkshire.
Historic England Scheduled Monument 1010295.

Primary Name(s): Kinsey Cave
Place Type: Prehistoric Monument
Historic County: Yorkshire
Division of County: West Riding
Lat, Long: 54.086908,-2.300961
Grid Reference: SD 8041 6570
Civil Parish: Giggleswick CP
Council Area: North Yorkshire CA
Strategic Authority Area: York and North Yorkshire SA
Police Area: North Yorkshire PA
GBPN ID: GBPN302757

GBPN URL: https://gazetteer.org.uk/place/Kinsey_Cave,_Yorkshire_302757

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