17,000-Year-Old Stripes of Red in a Welsh Cave Are the Oldest Rock Art in the UK, Study Finds

Here's where the UK's oldest cave painting is - and it's in Wales!

A cave painting in Wales has been confirmed as the oldest known rock art in the UK, after originally being dismissed as natural staining.

A Century After Causing Controversy, Red Cave Markings in Wales Are Classified Again as Britain's Oldest Rock Art

The team of scientists used modern dating methods to confirm an old hypothesis by the rock art’s initial discoverers

Paleolithic Rock Art Confirmed in Wales - Archaeology Magazine

Bacon Hole rock art photographed in 1913 (left) and 2024 (right) MUMBLES, WALES—According to a report in The Guardian, red horizontal bands on the walls of a cave in south Wales have now been identified as rock art dated to more than 17,000 years ago. The bands, which are equidistant from each other, were discovered near the Bristol Channel in Bacon Hole in 1912, and were considered to be examples of Paleolithic rock art, but a review in 1928 de…

17,000-year-old stripes of red in a Welsh cave are the oldest rock art in the UK, study finds

Over a century after a red-lined cave wall was discovered, scientists have determined that it represents the U.K.'s oldest rock art.

What looked like simple red stains turned out to be Britain’s oldest cave art from 17,100 years ago

Rest of World News: Inside a limestone cave on the Gower Peninsula in south Wales, eleven parallel horizontal lines of red pigment have been sitting on a cave wall for ro.

Britain's earliest prehistoric art found in Gower's Bacon Hole cave

Mystery remains around the meaning behind the art more than 17,000 years later.