Latest News & Updates
23 May 2020 - The MCRA logbooks collection is now back online, with a new look and additional features including search and full screen slideshow.
11 May 2020 - After many satisfying years with BCA Web Services the website hosting is being transferred. This has caused the Logbook viewer to be temporarily off-line. It will be replaced in a few days with a new and improved version.
Logbooks & Publications
After many satisfying years with BCA Web Services the website hosting is being transferred.
This has caused the Logbook viewer to be temporarily off-line.
It will be replaced in a few days with a new and improved version.
Latest News & Updates
11 May 2020 - After many satisfying years with BCA Web Services the website hosting is being transferred. This has caused the Logbook viewer to be temporarily off-line. It will be replaced in a few days with a new and improved version.
Latest News & Updates
1 May 2020 - Added a new and improved search and view screen to the Mendip Cave Bibliography
29 Mar 2020 - 31 Portland Cave Surveys added to the download archive.
23 Mar 2020 - Unfortunately due to the current Covid 19 shutdown we are unable to process any sales. Please bear with us and hopefully the situation will improve soon.
Bibliography
On-Line
The Mendip Cave Bibliography provides a list of references relating to each cave or cave related topic that have been printed in caving publications or newspapers. This on-line edition includes over 30,000 entries from 883 AD to present.
Latest News & Updates
29 Mar 2020 - 31 Portland Cave Surveys added to the download archive.
23 Mar 2020 - Unfortunately due to the current Covid 19 shutdown we are unable to process any sales. Please bear with us and hopefully the situation will improve soon.
8 Mar 2020
Bibliography
On-Line
The following areas can be searched instead of individual cave names -
Abbots Leigh cavesAsham Quarry cavesAshwick Grove risings / caves (and resurgence)Avon Gorge cavesAxbridge HillBanwell cavesBath Freestone quarriesCompton Bishop caves
Cave Surveys
MCRA makes available
* Drawn up surveys (below).
* The data collected to produce surveys. (Through the Cave Data Archive maintained by the CSG and BCA.)
The following surveys are available for download as reduced size images or PDF scans. These are reasonably adequate for printing, but if you require a copy of the original file (mainly high resolution TIFF format) please contact the MCRA.
Articles and Books
Original Articles
This section contains original articles of spelaeological interest
[An overview of the archaeology of Mendip caves and karst] by Vince Simmonds (revised 2016).
[Swildon's - What's in a name?] A Suggestion for the derivation of the name Swildon's by R. M. Taviner
[The Great Wheel Pit Mystery] by R. M. Taviner
[The Sandford Gulf and other lost caves of Sandford Hill] by R. M. Taviner
Latest News & Updates
29 Mar 2020 - 31 Portland Cave Surveys added to the download archive.
23 Mar 2020 - Unfortunately due to the current Covid 19 shutdown we are unable to make any sales. Please bear with us and hopefully the situation will improve soon.
8 Mar 2020
Bibliography
On-Line
In addition the bibliography can be searched by categories - a table of these categories is provided below (type the category name in the “Cave” column) -
archaeologyexhibitionindustrialquarriesarchiveexpeditionlog-books
Latest News & Updates
29 Mar 2020 - 31 Portland Cave Surveys added to the download archive.
23 Mar 2020 - Unfortunately due to the current Covid 19 shutdown we are unable make any sales. Please bear with us and hopefully the situation will improve soon.
8 Mar 2020
Cave Surveys
MCRA makes available
* Drawn up surveys (below).
* The data collected to produce surveys. (Through the Cave Data Archive maintained by the CSG and BCA.)
The following surveys are available for download as reduced size images or PDF scans. These are reasonably adequate for printing, but if you require a copy of the original file (mainly high resolution TIFF format) please contact the MCRA.
Latest News & Updates
29 Mar 2020 - 31 Portland Cave Surveys added to the download archive.
23 Mar 2020 - Unfortunately due to the current Covid 19 shutdown we are unable make any sales. Please bear with us and hopefully the situation will improve soon.
8 Mar 2020
Latest News & Updates
23 Mar 2020 - Unfortunately due to the current Covid 19 shutdown we are unable make any sales. Please bear with us and hopefully the situation will improve soon.
8 Mar 2020 - Many thanks to those who attended last night's launch of
For Sale
SOMERSET UNDERGROUND - Volume 1
(Bristol, Broadfield Down, The Bristol Channel & West Somerset)
by R. M. Taviner
Now available, this, the first of four volumes covering almost every conceivable underground site in the historic County of Somerset, comprises 275 pages and contains details of more than 800 natural caves, sea caves, mines, sinks, risings, springs, holy wells and artificial underground sites in Bristol, the Avon Gorge, Broadfield Down, the entire Bristol Channel and We…
Mines and Minerals of the Mendip Hills
[Mines and Minerals of the Mendip Hills by Peter S Burr]
by Peter S Burr
“Mines and Minerals of the Mendip Hills will not only become the standard reference on the subject, it will remain so for many years” - Chris Howes, Descent
This book is recommended to anyone interested in the Mendips, in British geology or mineralogy, or in British mining, social or economic history.
