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Caves and coves of myth and mystery.(Travel)
CAVES ARE DARKNESS and claustrophobia for some people, endless fascination for others. Although the odd blend of science and sport that is speleology originated among the limestone plateaux of southern France with the revered pioneers Martel and Casteret, the Yorkshire Ramblers were only the second group in the world to take it up seriously.
Caving in England is, however, older than this--very much older, with prehistoric remains found deep in some caves, and a large if dim literature of caves, telling of them as refuges during the Saxon invasions.
No Stone Age art galleries comparable to those of Spain and southern France have been discovered in British ...
- Launch of Mendips geological maps and guidebooks.
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire April 11, 2008 700+ words
...April 2008-UK Government: Launch of Mendips geological maps and guidebooks(C)1994...10042008 At a launch held at the Wells and Mendips Museum, the British Geological Survey...most popular and beautiful areas - the Mendips. These new books, Exploring the landscape...
- Explosive find in the Mendips.(Letter to the editor)
- Magazine article from: Geographical Inge, Rosie March 1, 2007 700+ words
...be interested to know that a few years ago, a cache of IRA explosives was discovered in a quarry in the south side of the Mendips--I guess they must have known about the Operating Bases. Rosie Inge, PR executive, Trelowarren Estate, Cornwall
- Burnett lives in a world of its very own ; the walk Nigel Vile walks to where...
- Newspaper article from: Bath Chronicle, The July 16, 2009 700+ words
...south and south-west of Bath'. The Masons describe this as an area where the outlying hills of the Cotswolds and the Mendips meet and merge to form a green undulating landscape of low hills, valleys and narrow winding lanes bordered by hedgerows...
- Albion gets that sinking feeling as its burghers turn to burgers.
- Magazine article from: Marketing Week August 31, 2006 700+ words
...It was the Government what done it." You would have to be a very fat hermit, living in an extra large cave somewhere in the Mendips not to have heard that over-eating sugary, fatty convenience and manufactured food makes you put on weight...
- Mendip Hills: areas of outstanding natural beauty: an area that has been...
- Magazine article from: Geographical Hoare, Natalie February 1, 2007 700+ words
...discovered in the region's caves and rock shelters...been washed into the caves by floods and then buried by silt. The caves at Wookey Hole and...was found in Goughs Cave in 1903. Links to the past abound in the Mendips, even in the beautifully...
- M2: TRAVEL: Spooky Wookey; Turning to the dark side in deepest...
- Newspaper article from: Birmingham Evening Mail (England) August 13, 2002 700+ words
...entering a dark damp cave. Once inside, peering...tourist attractions in the Mendips. As our party wound...Once we emerged from the cave, temporarily dazzled...weekend visit to the Mendips saw us based at the delightful...possible to also enter the caves here and these have a...
- Finding the coastal Mesolithic in southwest Britain: AMS dates and stable...
- Magazine article from: Antiquity Schulting, Rick J. Richards, Michael P. December 1, 2002 700+ words
...to the Mesolithic are notoriously rare in Britain. The relatively well-known sites of the Mendips that have yielded human skeletons (Gough's Cave, Badger Hole, Aveline's Hole) would have been many tens of kilometres inland at the time...
- Traditions live-on in Weston-super-Mare.
- Newspaper article from: Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England) Thomas, Gillian January 25, 1998 700+ words
...follows an up-and-down route along the Mendips past Cheddar to Wells. On a clear day...natural wonders under the ground too! The Mendips, which are made of hard Carboniferous...same period as coal, are seamed with caves. The most famous are at Cheddar and Wookey...
Source: HighBeam Research, Caves and coves of myth and mystery.(Travel)