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Introductions to general archaeology
Collis, J. 2006. Digging Up The Past. Sutton Publishing. Stroud
Wilkinson, P. 2007. Archaeology. What it is, where it is, and how to do it. Archaeopress. Oxford.
General archaeology magazines
British Archaeology: available by subscription/membership of the Council for British Archaeology online at www.britarch.ac.uk
Current Archaeology: Monthly by subscription to Current Publishing - www.archaeology.co.uk
Cave formation and sediments
Lowe, D. & Waltham, T 2002. Dictionary of Karst and Caves. BCRA Cave Studies Series 10.
Ford, T.D. 2001. Sediments in Caves. BCRA Cave Studies Series 9.
Cave archaeology and palaeontology
Jackson. J.W. 1953. Archaeology and Palaeontology. In Cullingford, C.H.D. British Caving - an introduction to Speliology: 252-346. Routledge & Kegan Paul. London.
(See also 2nd revised edition 1962)
Cave surveys and archives
The Cave Archaeology and Palaeontology Research Archive (CAPRA). Homepage
Health & Safety / Safe working practices
Working underground: Keeping safe, staying legal. Document drawn up by Dr Dave Merchant of UVSAR, to summarise key Health and Safety legislation of importance to cave archaeology projects.
Recent Publications
Boylan, P.J. 2009. Altamira Cave and Museum, Cantabria, Northern Spain. William Pengelly Cave Studies Trust Newsletter 100: 20 - 24.
Boylan, P.J. 2008. Geological site designation and preservation under the 1972 World Heritage Convention, pp. 279 - 304 In: Burek, C. & Prosser, C. (Eds.) The History of Geoconservation. Geological Society of London, Special Publication no. 300.
Boylan, P.J. 2008. The 1858 discovery and excavation of the Brixham Bone Cave, Devon, Studies in Speleology 16: 3-15.
Boylan, P.J. 2008. Review Article: New research proves there is a near-continuous half-million years sequence of deposits in Kent’s Cavern, Torquay. Studies in Speleology 16: 53-58.
Culver, D.C., Pipan, T. 2009. The biology of caves and other subterranean habitats. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Farrant, A.R., Moody, A.A.D., Mullan, G.J. 2009. Speleogenesis and landscape development in the Burrington area, Somerset. University of Bristol Spelaeological Society Proceedings 24: 207-252.
Farrant, A.R., Cooper, A.H. 2008. Karst geohazards in the UK: the use of digital data for hazard management. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology 41: 339-356
Finch, A., Wilmut, J. 2008. Developing Cave Studies: managing change at the Pengelly Centre. Studies in Speleology 16: 35-46.
Jennings, R.P., Giles Pacheco, F., Barton, R.N.E., Collcutt, S.N., Gale, R., Gleed-Owen C.P., Gutiérrez López, J.M., Higham, T.F.G., Parker, A., Price, C., Rhodes, E., Santiago Pérez, A., Schwenninger, J.L., Turner, E. (2009) New dates and palaeoenvironmental evidence for the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic occupation of Higueral de Valleja Cave, southern Spain. Quaternary Science Reviews 28: 830-839.
Judson, D. 2009. Eli Simpson and the BSA. BCRA Cave Studies Series 18.
Lewis, J., Thompson, A. 2008. Excavations east of Blackmoor, Charterhouse, Mendip Hills, Somerset. University of Bristol Spelaeological Society Proceedings 24: 83-96.
Lewis, J. 2009. The long barrows and long mounds of West Mendip. University of Bristol Spelaeological Society Proceedings 24: 187-206.
Lundberg, J. & McFarlane, D.A. 2009. Kents Cavern: A Field Guide to the Natural History. Buckfastleigh: William Pengelly Cave Studies Trust in association with Kents Cavern.
Mullan, G.J. 2008. Excavations in Long Hole, Cheddar, February 1977. University of Bristol Spelaeological Society Proceedings 24: 97-100.
O’Regan, H.J., Clare, T., Wilkinson, D. 2008. The nineteenth century excavation of Helsfell fissure near Kendal, Cumbria, and a reassessment of the surviving bone assemblage. The Naturalist 133: 121-133.
Shaw, T. 2008. J.S. Amery, Writer on Pridhamsleigh, visited Postojnska Jama, Slovenia, in 1882. Studies in Speleology 16: 47-51
Smith, P., Corrin, J., Ruiz Cobo, J. 2008. Heads Will Roll: Prehistoric human remains and pottery from two sites in the Matienzo area (North Spain). Studies in Speleology 16: 17-33.
Tellfer, M.W., Wilson, P., Lord, T.C. & Vincent, P.J. 2009. New constraints on the age of the last ice-sheet glaciation in north-west England using Optically Stimulated Luminescence dating. Journal of Quaternary Science.
Wilson , P., Vincent, P.J., Telfer, M.W., Lord, T.C. 2008. Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating of loessic sediments and cemented scree in northwest England. The Holocene 18: 1101-1112.
Shuttleworth Pot into Witches Cave II
Edited by Pete Monk and published by the CNCC. 67 full colour A4 pages, photo's and surveys, the complete history of the Witches Cave/Shuttleworth Pot project. £8.00 available from Bernies, Inglesport, Moorebooks, Starless River and CNCC.