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Proc Univ Bristol Spelaeol Soc 13
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Proc Univ Bristol Spelaeol Soc 13
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Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelæological Society
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13
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1972
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Date Of Issue From: 1972
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BIAB (British Archaeological Abstracts (BAA))
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05 Dec 2008
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Hay Wood cave burials, Mendip Hills, Somerset
R Everton
A Everton
5 - 29
ST 341583. Excavations by L S Palmer and later by E T Davies of the very disturbed deposits of this cave produced Mesolithic occupation material and late pre-Roman Iron Age burials. The microliths show affinities with S English and Welsh coastal assemblages. Of the twenty-eight or more burials, three young males had undergone mutilation, presumably ritual, of the upper incisor teeth. Other burials were so fragmentary as to suggest exposure before disposal in the cave. Catalogued are flints, EIA pottery (figured), RB pottery (not figured), human and animal bones, pollen and mollusca.
(1) A Roman counterfeiter's den: White Woman's Hole, near Leighton, Mendip Hills, Somerset; (2) Romano-British counterfeiters on Mendip and in South Wales: two deposits and a discussion
J H Barrett
George C Boon
George C Boon
61 - 69
ST 704444. White Woman's Hole is a cave some 18m long which contained, in disturbed stratification, late RB (Constantinian) coin-counterfeiting material (coins, flans and rods), RB pottery, and a fragment of iron pin. There was also medieval and later pottery, and prehistoric scraps. The counterfeits were made by quartering genuine issues, hammering and restriking them; by this means a silvery surface was retained. A similar method of producing blanks is known from a recent find of late 3rd century material at a Roman lead-silver mine at Draethen (Glamorgan/Monmouth borders). The economic conditions which led to the practice of counterfeiting are outlined and the implications of these two finds discussed.