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Kent's Cavern

Prowl around the caves of hyenas & bears

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Heading underground at Kent’s Cavern sees you exploring a 400 million year-old labyrinth of caves. You’ll hear stories of Stone Age inhabitants and extinct Ice Age animals.

The beautifully-lit chambers and tunnels here constitute one of Europe’s most important Stone Age sites. A jawbone found at Kent’s Cavern is up to 44,000 years old – making it north-west Europe’s oldest human fossil.

Guides lead you from the Vestibule Chamber and into the stalagmites-packed Rockies Chamber, before heading through the Cave of Inscriptions and the Labyrinth.

Along the way you’ll see evidence of the Stone Age tools and bones found here – belonging to woolly mammoths, cave bears, hyenas and lions.

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91 Ilsham Rd. TQ1 2JF

1 mile north east of Torquay Harbour

Bus 22 from Torquay Harbour

Hours 10am–4pm. Full & latest hours

Admission Adult £13; Child £12

+44 1803 215 136

kents-cavern.co.uk

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Text © Belinda Dixon

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