Caves and Caving

Contents of Issue 68, Summer 1995

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News from British caving regions:

• North:
  • New find on Fountains Fell
  • Soup Dragon Passage - King Pot
  • Gaping Gill Centenary, 1.8.95
  • Notts Pot survey extended
  • Clapham Beck Head extended
  • West Kingsdale Master Cave
  • Cowside House Cave, Langstrothdale
  • Magician's Hole, Stainforth
  • Northern Caves, Volume 3
  • Black Sheep Sink, Langstrothdale
  • Cave rescue film on Channel 4, The Cutting Edge
  • Cave Radio & Electronics Group field meeting at Goyden Pot
  • Cave artists in congress at County Pot
• Peak District:
  • Alsop's Cave, Eldon Quarry
  • Tearsall Pipe Caverns No. 2
  • James Hall's Over Engine Mine
  • Giants Hole extension
• Mendip:
  • Mendip Cave Registry reformed as an independent group (contact Tony Boycott, 14 Walton Rise, Westbury on Trym, Bristol BS9 3EW, Tel. +44 117 950 7336)
• Forest of Dean:
  • Big Sink
  • Miss Graces Lane probable feeder to Ban-y-Gor resurgence
  • Highwood Swallet
  • Slade Brook
  • Hoarthorns Wood Swallet
  • Wet Sink (Slaughter Stream Cave)
  • Bearse Pot
  • Cave potential in the lower Wye valley (Taylor & Venning)

Overseas:

• Spain:
  • Pozo del Madejuno - the 1994 expedition to Hoyo del Sedo, Central Massif of the Picos de Europa (Nichols)
• Switzerland:
  • Holloch in private hands - implications for International Speleological Congress 1997?
• Borneo:
  • Kalimantan Timur study area (Checkley, Boothroyd, Seddon & Gregory)
• Nepal:
  • Mahabharats '94 (Pickering)

Cave Science Column - innovation:

• Cave Heritage Centre proposed
• Clydach Gorge: Older than we thought? (Hunt & Simms)
• Stalactites, trees and volcanoes - spot the connection (dating)

Controversial innovation - Net Lines from the Internet

Miscellaneous:

• BCRA Conference 1995: Why Southport? (Plumb) [Conference is scheduled for 29 September - 1 October 1995 at the Floral Hall Complex, Southport, Lancashire]
• Test your ropes at the BCRA Conference
• News from foreign journals
• Reviews:
  • Peak Rigging Guide (Crew Climbing & Potholing Club)
  • Caving in the abode of the clouds (karst of N.E. India) (Brooks & Smart (eds))
• Earby Pothole Club celebrate 50 years
• Letters
• The formation of BCRA (Wilcock) - for readers who are unfamiliar with British caving history and its attendant political developments
• Association News:
  • Reports of Council Meetings 94 and 95
  • Administration
  • New Members
  • AGM of BCRA 1995 at Southport 30.9.95
  • Nomination of Officers for 1996
• Equipment report: The adjustable cow's tail