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77 relations: Anticline, Attborough Swallet, Aveline's Hole, Axbridge, Balch Cave, Banwell, Banwell Caves, Banwell Ochre Caves, Bed (geology), Bronze Age, Burrington Combe, Burrington, Somerset, Carboniferous Limestone, Cave diving, Caving, Charterhouse Cave, Charterhouse, Somerset, Cheddar Complex, Cheddar Gorge, Cheddar Yeo, Cheddar, Somerset, Chewton Mendip, Compton Bishop, Compton Martin, Compton Martin Ochre Mine, Cox's Cave, Devonian, East Harptree, Eastwater Cavern, Fairy Cave Quarry, Flash powder, GB Cave, Goatchurch Cavern, Gough's Cave, Great Britain, Herbert E. Balch, Hillier's Cave, Hunter's Hole, Iron Age, Lamb Leer, Longwood Swallet, Manor Farm Swallet, Mendip Cave Registry and Archive, Mendip Hills, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Ochre, Old Red Sandstone, Photographic plate, Picken's Hole, ..., Pierre's Pot, Priddy, Priddy Caves, Reservoir Hole, Rhino Rift, Rod's Pot, Shatter Cave, Shepton Mallet, Show cave, Shute Shelve Cavern, Sidcot Swallet, Sinkhole, Site of Special Scientific Interest, St Cuthbert's Swallet, St. Dunstan's Well Catchment, Stoke Lane Slocker, Stoke St Michael, Sump (cave), Swildon's Hole, Thrupe Lane Swallet, Tyning's Barrow Swallet, Upper Flood Swallet, View camera, W/L Cave, Water table, Wookey Hole, Wookey Hole Caves. Expand index (27 more) »
Anticline
In structural geology, an anticline is a type of fold that is an arch-like shape and has its oldest beds at its core.
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Attborough Swallet
Attborough Swallet (also known as Red Quar Swallet) is a cave in Chewton Mendip in Somerset, England.
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Aveline's Hole
Aveline's Hole is a cave at Burrington Combe in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England.
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Axbridge
Axbridge is a small town in Somerset, England, situated in the Sedgemoor district on the River Axe, near the southern edge of the Mendip Hills.
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Balch Cave
Balch Cave is a cave in Fairy Cave Quarry, near Stoke St Michael in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England.
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Banwell
Banwell is a village and civil parish on the River Banwell in the North Somerset district of Somerset, England.
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Banwell Caves
Banwell Caves are a 1.7-hectare geological and biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near the village of Banwell, North Somerset, England notified in 1963.
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Banwell Ochre Caves
Banwell Ochre Caves are a 12.46-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest near the village of Banwell, North Somerset, notified in 1983.
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Bed (geology)
Salto del Fraile Formation, Peru. Beds are the layers of sedimentary rocks that are distinctly different from overlying and underlying subsequent beds of different sedimentary rocks.
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Bronze Age
The Bronze Age is a historical period characterized by the use of bronze, and in some areas proto-writing, and other early features of urban civilization.
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Burrington Combe
Burrington Combe is a Carboniferous Limestone gorge near the village of Burrington, on the north side of the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, in North Somerset, England.
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Burrington, Somerset
Burrington is a small village and civil parish in Somerset, England.
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Carboniferous Limestone
Carboniferous Limestone is a collective term for the succession of limestones occurring widely throughout Great Britain and Ireland that were deposited during the Dinantian Epoch of the Carboniferous Period.
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Cave diving
Cave diving is underwater diving in water-filled caves.
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Caving
Caving – also traditionally known as spelunking in the United States and Canada and potholing in the United Kingdom and Ireland – is the recreational pastime of exploring wild (generally non-commercial) cave systems.
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Charterhouse Cave
Charterhouse Cave, on the Mendip Hills in Somerset, is the deepest cave in southern England.
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Charterhouse, Somerset
Charterhouse, also known as Charterhouse-on-Mendip, is a hamlet in the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) in the English county of Somerset.
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Cheddar Complex
The Cheddar Complex is a 441.3 hectare (1090.5 acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Cheddar around the Cheddar Gorge and north east to Charterhouse in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, notified in 1952.
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Cheddar Gorge
Cheddar Gorge is a limestone gorge in the Mendip Hills, near the village of Cheddar, Somerset, England.
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Cheddar Yeo
The Cheddar Yeo is a small river in Somerset, England.
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Cheddar, Somerset
Cheddar is a large village and civil parish in the Sedgemoor district of the English county of Somerset.
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Chewton Mendip
Chewton Mendip is a village and civil parish in the Mendip District of Somerset, England.
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Compton Bishop
Compton Bishop is a small village and civil parish, at the western end of the Mendip Hills in the English county of Somerset.
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Compton Martin
Compton Martin is a small village and civil parish within the Chew Valley in Somerset and in the Bath and North East Somerset unitary authority in England.
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Compton Martin Ochre Mine
Compton Martin Ochre Mine is a 0.85 hectare geological and biological Site of Special Scientific Interest located on the north side of the Mendip Hills, immediately south west of Compton Martin village, Somerset, notified in 1988.
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Cox's Cave
Cox's Cave is in Cheddar Gorge on the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England.
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Devonian
The Devonian is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic, spanning 60 million years from the end of the Silurian, million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Carboniferous, Mya.
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East Harptree
East Harptree is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England.
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Eastwater Cavern
Eastwater Cavern is a cave near Priddy in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England.
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Fairy Cave Quarry
Fairy Cave Quarry is between Stoke St Michael and Oakhill in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England.
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Flash powder
Flash powder is a pyrotechnic composition, a mixture of oxidizer and metallic fuel, which burns quickly and if confined produces a loud report.
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GB Cave
GB Cave is a cave between Charterhouse and Shipham in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England, and is close to Charterhouse Cave, the deepest in the region.
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Goatchurch Cavern
Goatchurch Cavern is a cave on the edge of Burrington Combe in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England.
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Gough's Cave
Gough's Cave is located in Cheddar Gorge on the Mendip Hills, in Cheddar, Somerset, England.
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Great Britain
Great Britain, also known as Britain, is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe.
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Herbert E. Balch
Herbert Ernest Balch (4 November 1869 – 27 May 1958) MA FSA was an English archaeologist, naturalist, caver and geologist who explored the caves of the Mendip Hills and pioneered many of the techniques used by modern cavers.
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Hillier's Cave
Hillier's Cave is a cave in Fairy Cave Quarry, near Stoke St Michael in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England.
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Hunter's Hole
Hunter's Hole (or Hunters' Hole) is a cave in the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England.
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Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age system, preceded by the Stone Age (Neolithic) and the Bronze Age.
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Lamb Leer
Lamb Leer is a 14.59 hectare (36.04 acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest between East Harptree and Priddy in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, notified in 1983.
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Longwood Swallet
The Longwood Swallet is a cave near Charterhouse, in the Carboniferous Limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England.
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Manor Farm Swallet
Manor Farm Swallet is a cave in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England which was subject to numerous failed digging attempts between 1947 and 1973 as the surface shafts kept collapsing.
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Mendip Cave Registry and Archive
The Mendip Cave Registry and Archive (MCRA) has the object of recording and indexing all available information on caves, mines, rock shelters and other sites of speleological interest primarily in the area of Bristol, Somerset, Bath and Wiltshire in South West England.
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Mendip Hills
The Mendip Hills (commonly called the Mendips) is a range of limestone hills to the south of Bristol and Bath in Somerset, England.
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Mesolithic
In Old World archaeology, Mesolithic (Greek: μέσος, mesos "middle"; λίθος, lithos "stone") is the period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic.
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Neolithic
The Neolithic was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 10,200 BC, according to the ASPRO chronology, in some parts of Western Asia, and later in other parts of the world and ending between 4500 and 2000 BC.
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Ochre
Ochre (British English) (from Greek: ὤχρα, from ὠχρός, ōkhrós, pale) or ocher (American English) is a natural clay earth pigment which is a mixture of ferric oxide and varying amounts of clay and sand.
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Old Red Sandstone
The Old Red Sandstone is an assemblage of rocks in the North Atlantic region largely of Devonian age.
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Photographic plate
Photographic plates preceded photographic film as a capture medium in photography.
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Picken's Hole
Picken's Hole is a small cave on the southern side of Crook Peak in the Mendip Hills in the English county of Somerset.
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Pierre's Pot
Pierre's Pot is a cave in Burrington Combe on the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England.
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Priddy
Priddy is a village in Somerset, England in the Mendip Hills, close to East Harptree and north-west of Wells.
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Priddy Caves
Priddy Caves is an Area: 67.6 hectare (167.0 acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest at Priddy in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, notified in 1965.
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Reservoir Hole
Reservoir Hole is a cave in Cheddar Gorge in southwest England.
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Rhino Rift
Rhino Rift is a cave near Charterhouse, in the Carboniferous Limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England.
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Rod's Pot
Rod's Pot is a limestone cave above Burrington Combe in the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England.
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Shatter Cave
Shatter Cave is a cave in Fairy Cave Quarry, near Stoke St Michael in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England.
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Shepton Mallet
Shepton Mallet is a town and civil parish in the Mendip district of Somerset in South West England.
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Show cave
A show cave — also called tourist cave, public cave, and in the United States, commercial cave — is a cave which has been made accessible to the public for guided visits.
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Shute Shelve Cavern
Shute Shelve Cavern is a natural cave system located in Shute Shelve Hill, Somerset, England above Axbridge in the Mendip Hills not far from Cheddar.
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Sidcot Swallet
Sidcot Swallet is a cave near Burrington Combe, in the Carboniferous Limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England.
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Sinkhole
A sinkhole, also known as a cenote, sink, sink-hole, swallet, swallow hole, or doline (the different terms for sinkholes are often used interchangeably), is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer.
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Site of Special Scientific Interest
A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Great Britain or an Area of Special Scientific Interest (ASSI) in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man.
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St Cuthbert's Swallet
St Cuthbert's Swallet is the second longest, and most complex, cave on the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England.
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St. Dunstan's Well Catchment
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Stoke Lane Slocker
Stoke Lane Slocker is a cave near Stoke St Michael, in the Carboniferous Limestone of the Mendip Hills, in the English county of Somerset.
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Stoke St Michael
Stoke St Michael is a village and civil parish on the Mendip Hills north east of Shepton Mallet, and west of Frome, in the Mendip district of Somerset, England.
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Sump (cave)
A sump or siphon is a passage in a cave that is submerged under water.
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Swildon's Hole
Swildon's Hole is an extensive cave in Priddy, Somerset.
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Thrupe Lane Swallet
Thrupe Lane Swallet is a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset, notified in 1992.
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Tyning's Barrow Swallet
Tyning's Barrow Swallet is a cave between Charterhouse and Shipham in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England.
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Upper Flood Swallet
Upper Flood Swallet which was originally known as Blackmoor Flood Swallet, is a cave near Charterhouse, in the carboniferous limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England.
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View camera
A view camera is a large format camera in which the lens forms an inverted image on a ground glass screen directly at the plane of the film.
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W/L Cave
W/L Cave is part of the Fairy Cave Quarry group of caves between Stoke St Michael and Oakhill in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England.
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Water table
The water table is the upper surface of the zone of saturation.
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Wookey Hole
Wookey Hole is a village close to Wells in Somerset, England.
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Wookey Hole Caves
Wookey Hole Caves are a series of limestone caverns, a show cave and tourist attraction in the village of Wookey Hole on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills near Wells in Somerset, England.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caves_of_the_Mendip_Hills
