The Gower Peninsula, in south Wales, has more than 95 caves excavated in the limestone, many of them with prehistoric records and four of them studied by the First Art project team.

One of them, Bacon Hole, a large sea cave on the south coast of Gower, has an important palaeoenvironmental record, but it is only partially understood because there are no lithic artefacts. However, there are cave paintings on the walls of a side chamber that could be dated.

The talk will present the fragmentary history of Bacon Hole archeology and explain why Upper Paleolithic communities produced this rock art there.