Long Hole Cave, Rhossili

#3 among attractions in Rhossili

Nature, Cave, Natural attraction

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Long Hole, also spelled Longhole, is a limestone cave on the south coast of the Gower Peninsula between Paviland and Port Eynon. It is relatively small, measuring about 15 m deep after several excavations. It was first excavated in 1861 by Colonel E. R. Wood. Wood found evidence of a lithic assemblage and faunal remains. The faunal remains included cave hyena, reindeer, Woolly rhinoceros, mammoth, straight-tusked elephant and wild horse. ()

Coordinates: 51°32'35"N, 4°14'6"W

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Penrhyn Gŵyr (Gŵyr)Rhossili United Kingdom

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Long Hole Cave – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Oxwich Castle, Weobley Castle, Church of St Illtyd, Red Lady of Paviland.

3 miE
Forts and castles, Historical place, Gothic Revival architecture
Oxwich Castle, Swansea
77 min walk • Oxwich Castle is a Grade I listed castle which occupies a position on a wooded headland overlooking Oxwich Bay on the Gower Peninsula, Wales.
5.1 miN
Forts and castles
Weobley Castle, Swansea
129 min walk • Weobley Castle is a 14th-century fortified manor house on the Gower Peninsula, Wales, in the care of Cadw. The castle overlooks Llanrhidian saltmarshes and the Loughor estuary.
3.3 miE
Church
Church of St Illtyd, Swansea
86 min walk • The Church of St Illtyd is Grade II* Listed Building in the city and county of Swansea in south Wales. It is 1 km from Oxwich village, on a site overlooking Oxwich Bay and reached by the Wales Coast Path. It has a square churchyard with a stone wall and a modern gate.
1 miNW
Prehistoric site
Red Lady of Paviland, Rhossili
26 min walk • The Red Lady of Paviland is an Upper Paleolithic partial skeleton of a male dyed in red ochre and buried in Britain 33,000 BP. The bones were discovered in 1823 by William Buckland in an archaeological dig at Goat's Hole Cave — one of the limestone caves between Port Eynon and Rhossili on the Gower Peninsula, Swansea, south Wales.
1.3 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Deborah's Hole Camp, Rhossili
34 min walk • Deborah's Hole Camp is an Iron Age hillfort situated atop the cliff above Deborah's Hole cave in the unitary authority of Swansea, Wales. It is crossed by the Wales Coast Path.
3.9 miW
Area
Worm's Head, Gower Peninsula
101 min walk • Worm's Head is a headland, at Rhossili, part of the City and County of Swansea, Wales. It is the furthest westerly point of the Gower Peninsula. The name Worm's Head is derived from an Old English word 'wyrm' for 'sea serpent'.
3.6 miNE
Forts and castles, Romanesque architecture
Penrice Castle, Swansea
91 min walk • Penrice Castle is a 13th-century castle near Penrice, Swansea on the Gower Peninsula, Wales. Nearby is a neo-classical mansion house built in the 1770s.
6.2 miNE
Nature, Cave, Natural attraction
Cathole Cave, Swansea
158 min walk • Cathole Cave, Cat Hole Cave or Cathole Rock Cave, is a cave near Parc Cwm long cairn at Parc le Breos, on the Gower Peninsula, Wales.
6.1 miNE
Memorial
Parc Cwm long cairn, Swansea
156 min walk • Parc Cwm long cairn, also known as Parc le Breos burial chamber, is a partly restored Neolithic chambered tomb, identified in 1937 as a Severn-Cotswold type of chambered long barrow.
4.4 miNE
Memorial
Cefn Bryn, Swansea
112 min walk • Cefn Bryn is an ancient ridge in Britain. It is a 5-mile-long Old Red Sandstone ridge in south Wales, in the heart of the Gower Peninsula, in the City and County of Swansea.
3.9 miNW
51°35'15"N • 4°17'29"W
Rhossili Bay, Rhossili
100 min walk • Beach