On the Cairn and Sepulchral Cave at Gop, Near Prestatyn

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The Excavation of an Oval Barrow beside the Abingdon Causewayed Enclosure, Oxfordshire

“…A related type was found with the belt slider at Lynch Hill Corner (Grimes i960, fig. 64), and another association between these artefacts is recorded from Gop Cave in North Wales (Dawkins 1901). Leaf-shaped arrowhead ( fig.…”

Places Of Transformation: Building Monuments From Water And Stone In The Neolithic Of The Irish Sea

“…2 However, chambered tombs were not the only places used for the fragmentation and deposition of human remains in the Neolithic of the British and Irish Isles. Ditch‐defined enclosures, caves – such as Gop (Dawkins 1901) and the Caldey Island sites (Lacaille & Grimes 1955) – wooden mortuary structures, and a whole variety of other contexts have been identified as containing human bones and forming a context for the transformation of the living or dead body. Watercourses are increasingly coming to light as important places for disposing of the remains of the dead.…”

“…7). Finally, other natural places of stone are heavily water‐worn and were the focus of Neolithic activity, such as the Gop cave in north Wales which was used for burial (Dawkins 1901). The cave is riddled with now‐dry water‐tunnels.…”

Places Apart? Caves and Monuments in Neolithic and Earlier Bronze Age Britain

“…Excavation of the cairn has offered little help. At the end of the nineteenth century, a shaft was sunk through the centre of the mound and two tunnels were driven from its base on the old ground surface (Boyd-Dawkins 1901). Unfortunately, these failed to find a chamber, cists or other burial deposits and nothing was recovered that can help to date the cairn.…”

“…In the low rock shelter, there was a drystonewalled cist measuring 1.7 m by 1.4 m internally and about 1.2 m high, built against the back wall. This contained parts of at least 14 contracted inhumations, apparently placed there over time (Boyd-Dawkins 1901). They were closely packed and often disarticulated, although this was not always the case, as with the bones of a foot found in their correct anatomical positions.…”