Editing Gower Peninsula (section)

== Landmarks ==
There are six castles on the Gower Peninsula: [[Landimore]] Castle{{mdash}}also known as Bovehill Castle{{mdash}}[[Oystermouth Castle]], [[Oxwich Castle]], [[Pennard]] Castle, [[Penrice Castle]], [[Weobley Castle, Gower|Weobley Castle]] and numerous cairns and standing stones.

Four beaches have [[Blue Flag beach]] and Seaside (2006) awards for their high standards: [[Bracelet Bay]], [[Caswell Bay]], [[Langland Bay]] and [[Port Eynon Bay]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.keepwalestidy.org/english/default.asp?Category=Tourism&NewsID=10&Menu=0.26.12.60|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061102105409/http://www.keepwalestidy.org/english/default.asp?Category=Tourism&NewsID=10&Menu=0.26.12.60|url-status=dead|title=Keep Wales Tidy – Tourism – Blue Flags|archive-date=2 November 2006}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.keepwalestidy.org/english/default.asp?Category=Tourism&NewsID=199&Menu=0.26.12.64.74|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070914030409/http://www.keepwalestidy.org/english/default.asp?Category=Tourism&NewsID=199&Menu=0.26.12.64.74|url-status=dead|title=Keep Wales Tidy – Tourism – Seaside Award Beaches 2006|archive-date=14 September 2007}}</ref> Five other beaches have been given the [[Green Coast Award]] 2005 for "natural, unspoiled environment": [[Rhossili Bay]], [[Mewslade Bay]], [[Tor Bay (Gower)|Tor Bay]], [[Pwll Du Bay]], and [[Limeslade Bay]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.keepwalestidy.org/english/default.asp?Category=Tourism&NewsID=177&Menu=0.26.12.61.70|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071006104911/http://www.keepwalestidy.org/english/default.asp?Category=Tourism&NewsID=177&Menu=0.26.12.61.70|url-status=dead|title=Keep Wales Tidy – Tourism – Green Coast Award Beaches 2005|archive-date=6 October 2007}}</ref>

Other beaches:
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* [[Swansea Bay]]
* [[Mumbles Beach]]
* [[Rotherslade]]
* [[Brandy Cove]]
* [[Three Cliffs Bay]]
* [[Oxwich Bay]]
* [[Slade Bay]]
* [[Horton Beach|Horton Bay]]
* [[Burry Holms]]
* [[Blue Pool Bay]]
* [[Broughton Bay]]
* [[Whiteford Sands]]
}}

=== Llethryd Tooth Cave ===
{{main|Llethryd Tooth Cave}}
The Llethryd Tooth Cave, or Tooth Hole cave, is a [[Bronze Age]] [[ossuary]] site in a limestone cave, about {{convert|1,500|yd|km}} north north west of the [[Parc Cwm long cairn]] cromlech, on private land along the Parc Cwm valley, near the village of Llethryd. In 1961 the cave was rediscovered by [[Caving|cavers]], who found human bones. An excavation was carried out by D.P.&nbsp;Webley & J.&nbsp;Harvey in 1962 revealing the disarticulated remains (i.e. not complete skeletons) of six adults and two children, dated to the Early Bronze Age or [[Beaker culture]]. Other finds are now held at the [[National Museum Cardiff|National Museum of Wales]], [[Cardiff]]: Early Bronze Age, or Beaker, collared urn pottery; flaked knives; a scraper; flint flakes; a bone spatula; a needle & bead; and animal bones – the remains of domesticated animals, cat and dog. Archaeologists [[Alasdair Whittle]] and Michael Wysocki note that this period of occupation may be "significant", with respect to Parc Cwm long cairn, as it is "broadly contemporary with the secondary use of the tomb". In their article published in The Proceedings of the [[Prehistoric Society]] (vol.64 (1998), pp.&nbsp;139–82) Whittle and Wysocki suggest corpses may have been placed in caves near the cromlech until they decomposed, when the bones were moved to the tomb – a process known as ''[[excarnation]]''.<ref name="Archaeoleg 1">{{cite web|title=Key Sites Southeast Wales – Neolithic and earlier Bronze Age|url=http://www.archaeoleg.org.uk/pdf/neolithic/KEY%20SITES%20SE%20WALES%20NEOLITHIC%20AND%20EARLIER%20BRONZE%20AGE.pdf|access-date=2008-11-04|publisher=Research Framework for the Archaeology of Wales|date=2003-12-22|work=Research Framework for the Archaeology of Wales website}}</ref><ref name="Coflein4">{{Coflein|desc=Tooth Cave|num=305613 |access-date=4 November 2008 |date=11 July 2002}}</ref><ref name="Biblio 1">{{cite web|title=Bibliography of Cave Sites Literature |url=http://www.capra.group.shef.ac.uk/2/walesbib.html |access-date=4 November 2008 |publisher=Department of Archaeology and Prehistory, University of Sheffield |date=5 December 2000 |work=Chamberlain, A.T. & Williams, J.P. 2000 A Gazetteer of Welsh Caves, Fissures and Rock Shelters Containing Human Remains |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100609105234/http://www.capra.group.shef.ac.uk/2/walesbib.html |archive-date=9 June 2010 }}</ref><ref name="Biblio 2">{{cite web|title=Bibliography of Cave Sites Literature|url=http://capra.group.shef.ac.uk/2/wales.html#AY|access-date=4 November 2008|publisher=Department of Archaeology and Prehistory, University of Sheffield|date=5 December 2000|work=Chamberlain, A.T. & Williams, J.P. 2000 A Gazetteer of Welsh Caves, Fissures and Rock Shelters Containing Human Remains|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060504182555/http://capra.group.shef.ac.uk/2/wales.html#AY|archive-date=4 May 2006|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name="prehist soc 1">{{Cite journal
 | last1 = Whittle | first1 = Alasdair
 | author1-link = Alasdair Whittle
 | last2 = Wysocki | first2 = Michael
 | title = Parc le Breos Cwm Transepted Long Cairn, Gower, West Glamorgan: Date, Contents, and Context
 | journal = Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society
 | volume = 64
 | page = 177
 | publisher = [[The Prehistoric Society]]
 | location = London
 | year = 1998
 | url = http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prehistoric/pps/abstracts/abs64.html#Parc
 | issn = 0079-497X
 | doi=10.1017/s0079497x00002206
}}</ref>

At 1,525&nbsp;m long (nearly 1 mile), the Tooth Cave is the longest cave in Gower. It has tight and flooded sections, and so is kept locked for safety.<ref name="UK Caves 1">{{cite web|title=Tooth Cave|url=http://www.ukcaves.co.uk/onecave-tooth|access-date=4 November 2008|publisher=UK Caves database|year=2008|work=UK Caves database website}}</ref><ref name="Explore 1">{{cite web|title=Gower Caves|url=http://www.explore-gower.co.uk/gower-caves|access-date=25 January 2019|publisher=Stella Elphick|year=2008|work=Explore Gower|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190126063929/http://www.explore-gower.co.uk/gower-caves|archive-date=26 January 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref>