The excavations at this cave have shown that the deposits had been greatly disturbed. The entrance rift was used in Mesolithic times as a temporary shelter. Later pre-Roman Iron Age burials were put in causing a major disturbance. The burials seem to be those of a small local community. For the first time in Britain ritual mutilation of the teeth in some young male adults has been demonstrated.

The Priddy Long Barrow was partially excavated in 1928. It had been previously disturbed. Its main structure was a cairn orientated approximately N-S with the higher and wider end at the south. Primary and secondary features were found. No objects by which these features could be dated came to light. The date of its construction is an enigma. From its form and structure a late Neolithic date may be presumed.

In 1966 the Southwestern Gas Board cut a pipe trench along Kings Weston Hill (NGR ST 5477). The trench crossed a cemetary, possibly of early Christian date, cut through an earthwork near the centre of the hill and also went through the outer defence of the Iron Age camp at the east end. An account of teh discoveries is given.

White Woman’s Hole is a cave some 18 m long which, during excavation, revealed late Roman-British coin counerfeiting material and Romano-British pottery in disturbed stratification. A sherd of Iron Age pottery, Medieval and later pottery were also found.

At Cloford Quarry the unconformity between the Inferior oolite above and the Carboniferous Limestone below is exposed. In this quarry is a cave that has been formed in close association with the plane that separates the two lithologies. Some of the passages are formed in both and some only in one. The roof of the cave is nowhere more than 3 m below the surface. All passages owe their origin to solution by running water. Collapse has altered some. A developmental sequence is postulated and the effects of joint control are stressed.

Conflicting views have been expressed about the hydrology of the catchment area to the east and west of Burrington Combe, mainly over the separation of the areas draining to Rickford and Langford resurgences and the amount of swallet water resurging at these two sites. The results of water tracing are examined and the discrepancies clarified by results from chemical analysis of water samples and hydrological analysis of flow records.

This paper discusses the variations of the weathering of limestone in N.W. Clare under different conditions of soil cover. The weathering at the soil/limestone interface depends on how far the percolating soil waters have been equilibrated with carbonates present in the soil.

The Fergus River Cave is the only example of a resurgence cave explorable for any distance in Co. Clare. Its total distance is now over 7000 ft. The directional trend up stream is N.N.E. towards the Carran depression.The hydrology is complex, but when water flows in the cave this water is derived from the Castletown River sinking at Carran and draining into the Fergus River. In wet weather much of the cave fills to the roof.