The history and archaeology of Great Oone’s Hole, in Cheddar Gorge are described, and a new survey is presented. The results of a previously unpublished investigation carried out in 1976-7 are discussed. It is concluded that the deposits have been too badly disturbed previously to merit further investigation.

The discovery of an engraving in Cathole Cave in 2010 led to a decision to grille the cave. In 2012 excavations took place in the cave ahead of the grilling. Two areas of the cave were excavated; Trench A demonstrating that the cave held a faunal occupation dating to MIS 3, at a time, or times, between 50,000 and 30,000 BP. Two flint blades of Upper Palaeolithic appearance were discovered along with a faunal assemblage from within the shallow deposits across the line of the grille. The work demonstrated that the earlier excavations in the cave by Col. E.R. Wood were extensive and at this point in the cave he excavated to bedrock. The standing section (Area B) which he left exposed further along the main cave passage was also cleaned, recorded and sampled. The deposits contain a faunal assemblage dominated by microfauna, but no cultural artefacts were found. The dating of key animal bones, the analysis of the microfauna and the sedimentological analysis have together enabled a picture to be developed of the changes in this section from the mid-Devensian to Late Glacial and Holocene.

The San Pedro Viejo de Pichasca rock-shelter, located some 70 km east of the provincial town of Ovalle in the Limarí Basin is considered one of Chile’s most important prehistoric sites with human occupation evidence dating to at least 9000 BCE. The rock shelter in the foothills of the Southern Andes Mountains is in a semi-arid environment. Since the 1960s there has been much archaeological interest with major excavations occurring between 1960 and 1970 (e.g. Ampuero and Rivera 1971). As part of a detailed survey of the rock shelter walls, many prehistoric painted pictographs), have been discovered and recorded, probably dating to the late Holocene. In July 2013 an Anglo-Chilean/Argentinean team further explored the walls and ceilings of the rock-shelter in order to experiment with different photogrammetric recording techniques, including microscopy and post-site digital analysis. This paper gives a synopsis of the long archaeological history of the site, along with observations and analysis of a number of selected painted panels that are located within the central section of the rock shelter. The various methodologies employed assisted in further understanding the underlying reasons that would have led people to paint in this rock-shelter.

Following the 2012 visit, when wet conditions rendered many of the caves inaccessible or dangerous (Hadfield, 2013), a UBSS team visited Co. Mayo again, focusing mainly on the area in and around Cong. The caves visited are described, and new surveys are presented.

The following notes are intended as an addition to the gazetteer published in 2011 (Murphy, 2011), an update on the original version published in the now defunct online journal CAPRA (Murphy, 2002) and the supplement published in 2013 (Murphy, 2013). There are eight new entries and four updates. Reviews of the cave palaeontology (O’Connor and Lord, 2013) and cave archaeology (Lord and Howard, 2013) of the region have been published since the last supplement.