A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
BACON-HOLE, a cave on the coast of Glamorgan; at the E side of the mouth of Oxwich bay, 8 miles SW by W of Swansea. Its floor is about 20 feet above the level of the sea; and its interior has been much altered by blasting. Fossil remains, of great interest, and in successive layers, have been found in it;-first, bones of the ox, the red deer, the roebuck, and the fox, in alluvial earth; next, bones of the ox, the deer, and the bear; next, bones of the ox, the deer, the bear, the wolf, the hyena, the rhinoceros, and the mammoth; next, bones of the polecat, the badger, and the mammoth; all the successive layers separated from one another by de posits of stalagmite. The mammoth bones are remark ably large, and may be seen in Swansea museum.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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