Publications

Check out the recommended research below for just a snippet of some of the fantastic journal articles and books written about Kents Cavern's rich history. 

Journal articles 

• A New Survey of Kents Cavern - Chris Proctor 
• Pengelly's legacy reconsidered: a GIS approach to spatial analysis of palaeontological and archaeological collections Kents Cavern, England - Sorin Mihai, Joyce Lundberg, Donald McFarlane & Barry Chandler
• The 19th Century Excavation of Kent's Cavern, England - Donald McFarlane & Joyce Lundberg 
• (Re)discovery of a major cave entrance at Kents Cavern, Devon UK - Rob Dinnis & Chris Proctor 
• A Cut-marked and Fractured Mesolithic Bone from Kent's Cavern, Devon UK - R. J. Schulting, S. M. Bello, B. Chandler & T. F. G. Higham 
• Age of Middle Pleistocene fauna and Lower Palaeolithic industries from Kent's Cavern, Devon - C.J Proctor, P.J Berridge, M.J Bishop, D.A Richards & P.L Smart 
• Recent flowstone growth rates: Field measurements in comparison to theoretical predictions - A. Baker & P. Smart 
• Fluvial archives as a framework for the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic: pattern of British artefact distribution and potential chronological implications - D.R Bridgland & M.J White 
• The geodiversity of Torbay - M.B Hart 
• William Pengelly’s Torquay – the photographic record c1860 – c1875 - T. Greeves 
• European Middle and Upper Palaeolithic radiocarbon dates are often older than they look: problems with previous dates and some remedies - Thomas Higham
• AMS radiocarbon dating of ancient bone using ultrafiltration - T.F.G Higham, R.M Jacobi & C. Bronk Ramsey 
• The earliest evidence for anatomically modern humans in northwestern Europe - T. Higham et al 
• AMS radiocarbon dating of Middle and Upper Palaeolithic bone in the British Isles: improved 
• reliability using ultrafiltration - 
• T.F.G Higham, 
• R.M Jacobi & C. Bronk Ramsey
• A unique population of cave bears (Carnivora: Ursidae) from the Middle Pleistocene of Kents Cavern, England, based on dental morphometrics - D.A Sabol, J Lundberg & D McFarlane
• Cave Men: stone tools, Victorian science and the ‘primitive mind’ of deep time - P.B Pettitt & M White 
• Kent's Cavern - whence and whither? - Allan Straw
• The Demonstration of Human Antiquity - P. Pettitt & M. White 

Books 

• The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain - N.M Ashton, S.G Lewis & C.B Stringer 
• Britain: One Million Years of the Human Story - Rob Dinnis & Chris Stringer 
• The British Paleolithic: human societies at the edge of the Pleistocene world - P. Pettitt & M White 
• Prehistoric Britain - J. Pollard 
• The Later Prehistoric and Roman Material From Kent’s Cavern, Torquay - R. Silvester 

Original sources 

• On Human Remains from Kent’s Hole, near Torquay - C. Blake 
• Letter to the Editor Regarding Blake’s Paper on Kents Hole - William Pengelly 
• The Literature of Kents Cavern, Part II, Including the Whole of Rev. J. Mac. Enery’s Manuscript - William Pengelly 
• The Devonshire Caverns and Their Contents - Unknown 
• Cavern Researches or Discoveries of Organic Remains and of Birtish and Roman Reliques, in the Caves of Kent's Hole, Anstis Cove, Chudleigh and Berry Head - Rev. J. MacEnery