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A collection of items which were excavated at Paviland Cave, Glamorgan.
A collection of items which were excavated at Paviland Cave, Glamorgan.
Paviland Cave, Gower is best known for the discovery of a human skeleton, originally thought to be female because of the ivory bracelets, sea-shell necklace and the red ochre that had been sprinkled over it. This skeleton became known as the 'Red Lady' and was assumed to be of Roman date. More recent research has however, shown that the body belonged to a male aged around 25 years and about 1.70m in height. The ivory he wore came from mammoth tusks for he lived in the last Glacial, a time of deteriorating climate. Cold tolerant species such as mammoth, woolly rhinoceros and reindeer bones have all been found in the cave.
