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Soldier's Hole is a rock shelter located in Cheddar Gorge in Somerset, England. The site is significant as a Palaeolithic occupation site that has yielded evidence of human activity dating to the late Upper Palaeolithic period. Excavations have recovered stone tools and other artefacts indicating that the shelter was used as a temporary camp or refuge by hunter-gatherer groups. The rock shelter itself is formed within the natural limestone cliffs of Cheddar Gorge and represents an important archaeological locality for understanding Palaeolithic settlement patterns in the south-west of England.
Soldier's Hole, Cheddar Gorge is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1011914. View the official record →
Soldier's Hole is a rock shelter located in Cheddar Gorge in Somerset, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1011914.
Soldier's Hole, Cheddar Gorge is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1011914.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Romano-British settlement on Stoke Moor (5.1 km), Duck decoy east of Barrow Wood Lane (5.6 km), Westbury village cross (6.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Soldier's Hole, Cheddar Gorge's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Soldier's Hole, Cheddar Gorge stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.