BBC Focus Magazine

[M Paul Lloyd]

Carving found in Gower cave could be oldest rock art.

An archaeologist believes a wall carving in a south Wales cave could be Britain's oldest example of rock art.
The faint scratchings of a speared reindeer are believed to have been carved by a hunter-gatherer in the Ice Age more than 14,000 years ago.
The archaeologist who found the carving on the Gower peninsula, Dr George Nash, called it "very, very exciting."
Experts are working to verify the discovery, although its exact location is being kept secret for now.
Dr Nash, a part-time academic for Bristol University, made the discovery while at the caves in September 2010.
He told BBC Wales: "It was a strange moment of being in the right place at the right time with the right kit.

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[Healerman]

Just been reading "The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles: Their Nature and Legacy by Ronald Hutton", and a persistent beef is the paucity of rock art in this country.

If this is a genuine find, then it is MAJOR!

[KingPhillip]

Maintaining scepticism, aren't the long and straight fine lines over an uneven surface difficult to achieve?

[Liam Sheppard]

just read 'homo britannicus' and now Oppenheimers 'Out Of Eden' should I stop!? heh heh