Red Lady of Paviland Cave, Show Caves Caverns and Mines Port Eynon, City of Swansea - Wales where to go, what to see and where to stay in Wales

The Red Lady of Paviland Cave is located on the Gower Peninsula in South Wales. Paviland Cave is famed for the archaeological find – a skeleton known as the Red Lady of Paviland – and lies between Worm’s Head Peninsula and Port Eynon Point. | The Red Lady of Paviland is something of a misnomer, however, as it was later found to be the skeleton of a man. It is a fairly complete Upper Paleolithic-era human male skeleton dyed in red ochre which was discovered in 1823 by William Buckland, during an archaeological dig at Goat's Hole Cave (as the cave is known locally). | The Red Lady is the first human fossil to have been found anywhere in the world, and at 33,000 years old is still the oldest ceremonial burial of a modern human ever discovered anywhere in Western Europe. | Walkers on the Gower Coastal Path, part of the All Wales Path, have the opportunity to visit the cave, subject to both the times of the tide and a steep climb from the cliff top path.