A summary is presented of a second multi-club expedition to the Kameno-More region, ‘Sea of Rock’, of Montenegro to continue exploration of Pištet 4 and resolve questions that remained from the 2009 expedition. In 2009 a short, muddy pitch at the base of impressive mud banks approximately 20 m high marked the limit of exploration although a large chamber appeared visible ahead. The 2010 expedition successfully reached that chamber, which mostly comprised a significant sand dune approximately 50 m x 20 m in a large collecting chamber with a side stream passage leading to three pitches and a second smaller sand dune chamber ending in a sump.

In August 2008, small-scale research excavations were carried out at Priddy Circle 1, one of four related circular earthwork enclosures located on the Mendip Hills in Somerset. The date and function of the Priddy Circles has been much debated, largely due to the morphology of the monuments: they have external ditches and internal banks which seem to have been revetted by wooden posts. Although E. K. Tratman, who was involved in excavating a number of trenches across Priddy Circle 1, suggested that the monuments were related to henges and thus of Neolithic date, the lack of artefacts and radiocarbon dates, together with the unusual layout and construction, has led to much speculation. The reopening of one of the earlier excavation trench across the bank and ditch of Circle 1 showed that his interpretation of the constructional sequence was erroneous, with greater complexity revealed in the bank/ditch/posthole sequence, suggesting that the monument’s construction went through more than one phase. So far, three radiocarbon determinations have been returned and these suggest a Later Neolithic date for the monument but it is argued that the monuments are not henges but belong to a tradition of enclosure that predates them and had a different function. A palaeo-environmental study was able to successfully retrieve and analyse pollen from several different contexts and all confirm Dimbleby’s original assertion (1967) that the Circles were constructed in an open grassland environment.

This paper describes the preliminary results and conclusions from the excavations which took place in Read’s Cavern during April and May 2010. The excavation revealed intact Iron Age archaeological deposits consistent with the UBSS excavations from the 1920s. Multiple phases of use were identified from a combination of the excavation and reports on previous fieldwork. A consequence of the 2010 excavations is a reinterpretation of the Iron Age use of Read’s Cavern.

The main focus of this paper is an examination of the accounts of the discovery of Aveline’s Hole and its contents. The unpublished manuscripts of Reverend John Skinner and his influence on various published accounts are also considered. Skinner’s accounts of the cave are presented in greater detail and his observations on and drawings of the objects found in the cave by Reverend David Williams are presented for the first time.

This paper describes cave explorations in Co. Clare and Co. Galway that have taken place since the publication of the most recent paper of this kind in 2008. Descriptions of significant new finds at Robbers’ Den Cave, at Poll Gonzo in the High Burren, Poulnagollum and at dive sites in the Gort Lowlands are included.

The following brief notes are intended as a supplement to the authors’ papers from the years 2000, 2005 and 2007, which constitute the ‘Landslip caves of the Cotswolds’ series.

This gazetteer contains a summary of information about caves in the Yorkshire Dales from which vertebrate remains have been recorded in the caving literature. It was first published in the now defunct on line journal CAPRA (Cave Archaeology and Palaeontology Research Archive) in 2002 with revision in 2004. This version has been revised and updated to include a further 9 sites. The area covered is that of the three current volumes of the Northern Caves guide book series (Brook, et al. 1988, Brook et al. 1991 and Brook et al. 1994) excluding Morecambe bay, North York Moors and Magnesian limestone caves.