The Giles Barker Award is presented to any person connected with any aspect of cave photography in recognition of excellence or contributions to the field; ...
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The Tratman Award is presented annually to the best caving-related, paper-based publication in memory of UBSS member Professor E.K. ‘Trat’ Tratman. Chris Howes, on behalf ...
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Symposium - Saturday 11th October 202 Field trips - Sunday 12th October 2025 School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol Register here at the eventbrite ...
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Alan Jeffreys heads over to the American mid-West for an enjoyable underground murder romp in company with an appropriately named main character. Crime fiction searches ...
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In just over two weeks time the Bristol Exploration Club (BEC) will be hosting the next Wessex Challenge at the Belfry on Mendip! The event ...
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A human jawbone housed in a small Bristol museum has contributed ancient DNA to ground-breaking research into bacteria. The jawbone was found in Fishmonger’s Swallet, ...
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Symposium - Saturday 11th October 2025 Field trips - Sunday 12th October 2025 School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol FIRST CIRCULAR The British Cave ...
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Jim Warny is the latest to break the record for deep cave dives in Ireland and the UK - even if he did admit that ...
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The latest edition of the BCRA’s Cave and Karst Science contains four main papers. Lee Knight, Nataša Mori and Anton Brancelj have carried out a ...
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The Tratman Award is presented annually to the best caving-related, paper-based publication in memory of UBSS member Professor E.K. 'Trat' Tratman. The award recognises excellence ...
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The Giles Barker Award is presented to any person connected with any aspect of cave photography in recognition of excellence or contributions to the field; ...
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Alan Jeffreys couldn't put down the updated edition of Adventures Underground, and not because he'd accidentally glued it to his fingers ... The first edition ...
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The second edition of the popular Adventures Underground by Dave Haigh and John Cordingley is available now from Wildplaces Publishing. The first edition, reviewed here, ...
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The Waterfall climb in GB Cavern, Somerset was closed in 2021 after a major rockfall. Following a recent inspection, Charterhouse Caving Company Ltd (CCC Ltd) ...
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Wells and Mendip Museum plan to delve deep into the pioneering days of British caving in an exhibition that will run from 6th July to ...
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The entrance to Goatchurch Cavern with the recent rockfall on the left. Photo: Wayne Starsmore The wet winter of 2023/24 is probably the cause of ...
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The next issue of Descent magazine is due out shortly. If you haven’t got a subscription, go to the link at the end of this ...
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The BCRA Cave Science Symposium and AGM is taking place on 21st and 22nd October 2023 in Leeds ...
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The 2023 JRat Digging Award presentation will take place in the Long Room of the Hunter’s Lodge Inn, Priddy, Somerset on Saturday 25th November. The ...
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The Charterhouse Caving Co. Ltd. has gone paperless, exchanging the old paper permits for new electronic ones. And they're free. Since the Dawn of Time ...
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After a long break, Hidden Earth will be held again this Autumn. Hidden Earth, the UK's major caving event has been missing from the calendar ...
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Cave diver and photographer Martyn Farr has produced a tempting array of descriptions and photographs of 100 cave and mine sites. Hidden Realms aims to ...
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Dave King, ATLAS digger, invites you to a weekend of digging, caving and two BBQs in Somerset this summer. 2023 is the 50th Anniversary of ...
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The British Caving Association eAGM is being held at 10.30am on Sunday 11 June 2023 on Zoom. Details of how to join the meeting or ...
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Nicely on schedule, the next issue of Descent is about to drop through your letterbox. Make sure your subscription is up to date, so you ...
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The first issue edited by the new team of Chris Scaife and Carolina Smith is about to hit the streets. Make sure your subscription is ...
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The Fairy Cave Quarry management team have asked us to post the following: A reminder to anyone visiting Fairy Cave Quarry. Hobbs the quarry owners ...
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The Tratman Award is granted annually to the best publication of the year, including books, journals and even individual articles. This report considers those that ...
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After 34 years and 204 issues, Chris Howes and Judith Calford are handing Descent on to new management. Descent was launched in January 1969 by ...
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The time has come, the caver said, to talk of many things: of kit and digs and caving trips, of places we have seen, so ...
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