Paviland Cave

What a stunning site this is! A good scramble down and then up into the cave and a rapid retreat as the sea was coming in across the rock platform that you go back down across. Must go back! 

Paviland cave is famous as the site where,in 1823, the Reverend William Buckland discovered a skeleton, now known to be a male, that was buried with ivory bracelets and wands, and perforated seashells covered with ochre that stained the bones red. Over 5000 finds have been made inclusing flints and antler. The burial is believed to be 28, 000 yrs old, from just before the final advance of the ice sheets in the early upper Palaoelithic (New Naturalist: Gower: J Mullard).

The path down. 

The shore.

Looking back the way we had come down.

Looking up to the cave - just above center in the photo.

It's quite a thought that people lived here 28,000 years ago.

From inside the cave looking out...