Aveline’s Hole
Aveline's Hole is a cave at Burrington Combe in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England. The earliest scientifically dated cemetery in Britain, 10,200 and 10,400 years old, was found at Aveline's Hole, constituting the largest assemblage of Mesolithic human remains found in Britain.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Rodw, Public domain.
- Type: Cave
- Description: cave and archaeological site in the United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Aveline’s Hole (cave)”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Pierre’s Pot and Goatchurch Cavern.
Pierre’s Pot
Cave
Pierre's Pot is a karst cave in Burrington Combe on the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England. The cave was discovered in 1983 and has two main levels, the lower level being reached through an extremely tight rift. Pierre’s Pot is situated 990 feet south of Aveline’s Hole.
Goatchurch Cavern
Cave
Photo: Goatchurch, Public domain.
Goatchurch Cavern is a cave on the edge of Burrington Combe in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England. Goatchurch Cavern is situated 1,400 feet south of Aveline’s Hole.
Sidcot Swallet
Cave
Sidcot Swallet is a cave near Burrington Combe, in the Carboniferous Limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England. It was named after the Sidcot School Speleological Society who explored it in 1925. Sidcot Swallet is situated 1,300 feet south of Aveline’s Hole.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Burrington and Black Down.
Burrington
Village
Photo: Rodw, Public domain.
Burrington is a small village and civil parish in Somerset, England. It is situated in the unitary authority of North Somerset, just off the A368 between Blagdon and Churchill.
Black Down
Locality
Photo: Jsommer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Black Down is the highest hill in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, in south-western England. Black Down lies just a few miles eastward of the Bristol Channel at Weston-super-Mare, and provides a view over the Chew Valley.
Lower Langford
Village
Photo: FollowMeChaps, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lower Langford is a village within the civil parishes of Churchill and Burrington in the unitary authority of North Somerset, England. It is located on the western edge of the Mendip Hills about 8 miles east of Weston-super-Mare.
Aveline’s Hole
- Category: landform
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.32471° or 51° 19′ 29″ northLongitude
-2.75331° or 2° 45′ 12″ westOpen location code
9C3V86FW+VMOpenStreetMap ID
node 895292645OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cave_entranceWikidata ID
Q790368
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In Other Languages
From Egyptian Arabic to Turkish—“Aveline’s Hole” goes by many names.
- Egyptian Arabic: “حفرة افلين”
- Finnish: “Aveline’s Hole”
- French: “Aveline’s Hole”
- German: “Aveline’s Hole”
- Interlingua: “Aveline’s Hole”
- Turkish: “Aveline’s Hole”
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Highlights include Mendip Lodge Wood and Bath Swallet.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Aveline’s Hole”. Photo: Rodw, Public domain.