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Cave Archaeology Group

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A 1888 paper on the nature of caves by T. McKenny Hughes, Woodwardian Professor of Geology, Cambridge
A description of the caves in the area of Settle and Ingleton
English Heritage - best practice guidelines
A short artice by John Thorp on "Horses Ancient and Modern in the Caves and Shafts of Kingsdale"
Iron Age and Pictish activity at Wemyss Caves, Fife
National Museum of Ireand on the archaeological potential of caves
Yorkshire Dales catchment areas / from "A Conservation Audit of Archaeological Cave Resources in the Peak District and Yorkshire Dales National Parks" - Research Report: ARCUS 73b - January 2006.
Magazine article by Brendon Wilkins on cave archaeology in the Yorkshire and Lancashire Dales