Picken's Hole is a small cave on the southern side of Crook Peak in the Mendip Hills in the English county of Somerset. It has been designated as a scheduled monument. It has sometimes been confused with a nearby cave called Scragg's Hole, including by the Somerset Historic Environment Record.[1]
The cave is 8 metres (26 ft) below the plateau and 27 metres (89 ft) above the valley floor.[2] It is named after M. J. Picken who found teeth in earth thrown out of their sets in the area by badgers.[3]
^"Picken's Hole (Scragg's Hole), near White Rock, Compton Bishop". Somerset Historic Environment Record. South West Heritage Trust. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
^Tratman, E.K. (1964). "Picken's Hole, Crook Peak, Somerset: A Pleistocene Site" (PDF). Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society. 10 (2): 112–115.
^Pettitt, Paul; White, Mark (2012). The British Palaeolithic: Human Societies at the Edge of the Pleistocene World. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 364–65. ISBN978-0-415-67455-3.
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