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Aveline’s Hole is a cave at Burrington Combe in the limestone of the Mendip Hills in Somerset England.The earliest scientifically dated cemetery in Britain was found at Aveline’s Hole. The human bone fragments it contained from about 21 different individuals are thought to be between roughly 10200 and 10400 years old.A series of inscribed crosses found on the wall of the Aveline’s Hole cave are believed to date from the early Mesolithic period just after the Ice Age.
