In 1993 the Wye Valley Caves Project undertook an exploratory season of survey and trial excavations in a series of caves and rockshelters in the Wye Valley Gorge, near Monmouth. Initial finds have included material of Upper Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Bronze Age and Romano-British dates. Future work is intended to include the development of new methods of small scale survey and to focus on the relationship between the functional use of caves and their location in the landscape.