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Cheddar Gorge is a limestone gorge in the Mendip Hills, near the village of Cheddar, Somerset, England. The gorge is the site of the Cheddar show caves, where Britain's oldest complete human skeleton , Cheddar Man , estimated to be 9,000 years old, was found in 1903. [ 1 ]
Cox's Cave is in Cheddar Gorge on the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England.It is open to the public as a show cave.. The cave is named after mill owner George Cox who discovered it in 1837, while quarrying limestone for a new building.
Cheddar Gorge is Britain’s largest gorge and probably the country’s best known limestone feature. It is a spectacular fluvial feature with a geomorphic history extending back 2 million years and encompassing the major environmental changes of the Pleistocene period. Cheddar Caves contain both active and fossil systems.
The hills consist of anticlines of Carboniferous Limestone lying over Devonian Old Red Sandstone, with the sandstone exposed on the summits.When a surface stream running off the sandstone reaches the limestone it sinks below ground through a "swallet", (also known locally as a "slocker"), continuing on its way down towards sea level by enlarging existing cracks in the rock to form caves, and ...
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Cheddar Gorge, which is located on the edge of the village, is the largest gorge in the United Kingdom. [44] The gorge is the site of the Cheddar Caves, where Cheddar Man was found in 1903. [7] Older remains from the Upper Late Palaeolithic era (12,000–13,000 years ago) have been found. [8]
The Perch (grid reference) is a 72.1 hectare (178.2 acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest close to Cheddar Gorge in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England.It received SSSI notification in 1990.
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