Overview
Cave — Tonlemone is recorded as Man-made underground passage at Tonlemone. It preserves evidence of a built underground passage, often connected with a farm or defended home, although its exact use can vary. The source record also describes the surviving evidence; its details are kept below.
Who lived here and when
The record identifies Cave — Tonlemone as Man-made underground passage. It does not safely name every person, family or worker who used it, or fix all phases to exact years.
Homes and daily life
The recorded type points to a built underground passage, often connected with a farm or defended home, although its exact use can vary. That explains the likely everyday purpose without claiming people, tools or customs that the exact record does not prove.
What was found
The saved source says: On the crest of a W-facing slope. Marked on the 1837 and 1928 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described in italic script on both as 'Cave'. It is described as having two square rooms (OS Name Book). One lintel (dims 1.2m x 0.7m; T 0.2m) in a depression (dims 1m x 1m; D 0.4m) is visible with the tops of the side-walls of a passage which ran NE-SW. The passage is filled with field stones and is inaccessible. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Why it ended
The saved record does not establish one certain ending. A change in farming, water level, trade, fuel, ownership, route or settlement pattern may have ended the use, but no single cause is claimed without evidence.
Why it mattered
Cave — Tonlemone fixes a real piece of work or daily life to an exact place. Even where names are lost, its remains show how people obtained food and materials, organised land, made homes or adapted to the local ground.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
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