Port Kennedy Bone Cave

Port Kennedy Bone Cave
LocationValley Forge National Historic Park, Port Kennedy, Pennsylvania
Depth50 ft (15 m)
Discoveryc. 1894
GeologyPotsdam Limestone
Entrances1
Hazardsburied
AccessRestricted

The Port Kennedy Bone Cave is a limestone cave in the Port Kennedy section of Valley Forge National Historical Park, Pennsylvania, USA.[1] The Bone Cave "contained one of the most important middle Pleistocene (Irvingtonian, approximately 750,000 years ago) fossil deposits in North America".[2]

  1. ^ Circa-1894 photo of the entrance to the Bone Cave Archived 2017-06-28 at the Wayback Machine, from Bucks County Historical Society.
  2. ^ Bechtel, Timothy D.; Jaime L. Hojdila; Samuel H. Baughman II; Toni DeMayo; Edward Doheny (2005). "Relost and refound: Detection of a paleontologically, historically, cinematically(?), and environmentally important solution feature in the carbonate belt of southeastern Pennsylvania". The Leading Edge. 24 (5): 537. doi:10.1190/1.1926813. ISSN 1070-485X.