The Society’s Library and Archive contents much material that is rare and thus difficult to find. This includes out-of-print publications and examples of our own material other than that published in our Proceedings and Newsletter. As time allows, we will digitize these papers and make them available here. This page will list all such publications and will be added to as and when more become available. This page also includes links to files which supplement papers in our Proceedings.

Historical Works on Mendip Caving and Archaeology

• Cheddar, Its Cliffs and Caves Published 1842 by Light and Ridler of Bristol.
• Early Life in the West by J.A. Davies. Published 1927.

Historical Works on Irish Caving

• The Desmond Cave at Mitchelstown by D.J. Gargan. Published 1939.
• Doolin - St. Catherine’s Cave by Dr O.C. Lloyd. Published 1964.
• Symposium on the age of the Clare caves December 1964 This event was held in the university’s geography department on 12th December 1964. It is not known why these papers were not published at the time.

Material supplementary to published papers in our Proceedings

This section contains detailed material supplementary to that found in papers we have published. For reasons of space and readability, it is not possible to always include raw data, for example, within the original publication. Such material may be found here.

• Uranium-series ages for speleothem and tufa deposits associated with quaternary mammalian fossil eveidence in England and Wales: Hodge, et al: Proc. 27 (1) 73-80.
• Site plan of Barrow T5: Supplementary Material: Trimmis and Mullan: Proc. 28 (1) 141-151.
• Late Glacial Palaeoclimate Investigation at King Arthur’s Cave and Sun Hole: Reade, et al: Proc. 28 (2) 221-238.
• Cave and Karst Features of the North Bristol Outcrop: Hardwick: Proc. 29 (2) 193-217.