Bibliography

On-Line

The Mendip Cave Bibliography provides a list of references relating to each cave or cave related topic that have been printed in caving publications or newspapers. This on-line edition includes over 30,000 entries from 883 AD to present.

NEW: Search the full bibliography online with the Mendip Cave Bibliography Search

The following areas can be searched instead of individual cave names -

Abbots Leigh caves	Asham Quarry caves	Ashwick Grove risings / caves (and resurgence)	Avon Gorge caves
Axbridge Hill	Banwell caves	Bath Freestone quarries	Compton Bishop caves
Bath thermal springs	Batts Combe Quarry caves	Bector Wood Quarry caves	Biddlecombe Springs
Blackdown Hills	Blackmoor mineshafts	Blaise Castle Estate caves	Bleadon Quarry caves
Box Freestone Quarries	Bradford on Avon stone quarries	Brean Down caves	Bristol caves & mines
Brockley Pits	Burrington Combe caves	Castle Hill Quarry caves	Chelm's Combe Quarry caves
Chilmark quarries	City of Wells underground watercourses	Cleeve Hill Iron Mines	Clevedon sea caves
Cloford Quarry caves	Combe Down Freestone quarries	Compton Hill springs	Compton Martin caves / springs

In addition the bibliography can be searched by categories - a table of these categories is provided below (type the category name in the “Cave” column) -

archaeology	exhibition	industrial	quarries
archive	expedition	log-books	radon
bibliography	fiction	lost caves	registry
biography	filming	maps	rescue
broadcast	floods	mining	review
canda	flora & fauna	mining [calamine]	societies
chemistry	freestone quarrying	mining [Charterhouse]	surveying
communication	general	mining [Chewton Mendip]	technique
depressions, shakeholes etc	geology	newspapers	training
digging & digging techniques	geomorphology	obituary	tunnel
diving	georesistivity	oil prospecting	unnamed cave
dowsing	history	paraspeleology	unnamed mine
ephemera	humour	photography	videos
equipment	hydrology	poetry	weather forecasting

The second edition of the Mendip Cave Bibliography and Newspaper Catalogue was published in September 2005 and includes over 25,000 references from 883 AD to 2004 AD. Future updates will be available on-line.

This massive work was produced from a large database created in 1994 which has been continually added to since that time. It is an indispensable addition to Mendip caving literature and is the largest such publication ever to appear in the British Isles dealing with a single British caving region.

Based initially on Ray Mansfield's card index of about 3,000 items it has been expanded to its current size. Non-site specific topics have been collected together under a relevant heading, e.g. archaeology, biology, hydrology, geomorphology etc.

This edition of the bibliography does not displace other bibliographies and indexes such as Mendip Bibliography Part II by Trevor Shaw [1972], the various indexes published by caving organisations [BCRA and CDG] or news information contained in Descent Magazine. Neither do the compilers claim it to be complete for there are still many caving / national magazine runs and newspapers still to be searched.