Caves and Caving

Contents of Issue 72, Summer 1996

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News from British caving regions:

• North:
  • New Northern Correspondent: Paul Swire (Beardy). Thanks to Steve Round of Bernies, on his retirement from this post, for many years stirling work.
  • Dale Barn dive trending NE towards Dry Gill Cave (Holroyd)
  • Magician's Hole, Stainforth, a flood rising (Grant)
• Peak District:
  • James Hall's Over Engine Mine (Nixon & Warriner)
  • Camcorders Underground 9 March 1996 (Wright & Webb)
  • Sump 10 reached in P8 (Stanton & Whybro)
  • Progress in Glory Hole Sump, Bagshawe Cavern (Brooks & Hawksworth)
  • Alsop's Cave destroyed by quarrying
• Forest of Dean:
  • Dig at the end of Flow Choke Passage, Slaughter System, with a view to potential linking to Redhouse Lane Swallet (Elliott)
  • Connection between Hull Passage and Dogs Grave Passage, Slaughter System (Howard & Adlam)
  • Dye traces carried out in Bearse/Slade Brook area (Taylor)
  • Engineered shaft dig at Miss Graces Lane now at 17m depth in clay (Elliott)
  • Woolaston Wood dig has revealed 15m of passage
• Devon:
  • Dog Holes Cave extended to two sumps (Mayers)

Overseas:

• France:
  • Diving in the resurgences of the Lot and Cele region: Emergence du Boulet, Emergence du Ressel and other sites with potential (Skorupka)
• Spain:
  • Major new archaeological cave discovery near Santander, El Sistema de la Garma-Truchiro, with Stone Age deposits and cave art (Ayllon & Serna)
• Slovenia:
  • ICCC & JSPDT 1995 Expedition to the Julian Alps (Evans & Evans)
• Turkey:
  • Cukurpinar Dudeni, Taurus Mountains (Susam & Genc)
  • Saklikent Gorge '95 Expedition (Stratford)
• Russia:
  • Beneath Fisht Mountain (Judson)
• USA:
  • Kazumura Cave, Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, the world's longest and deepest lava tube (Waltham)
• Vietnam & Laos:
  • Reconnaissance 1995 (Limbert & Limbert)

Cave Science Column (Hunt (ed.))

• BCRA Cave Science Symposium 24 February 1996, Staffordshire University Report (Gibson)

Reviews:

• Waltham, Simms, Farrant & Goldie 1996, Karst & Caves of Great Britain, English Nature

Letters:

• The need to support SIGs by providing the C&C and C&KS vehicles for 'caver friendly' articles (Rushton)
• Suggested ways forward for the technical publications of BCRA (Wookey)
• Cavers' negligence in Marble Arch Caves (Watson)
• Controversy over possible second entrance to Ogof Draenen (Garman, Stuart, Lovett, Jones, Bolt & Long)

Association News:

• September 14/15 1996 BCRA National Caving Conference & Exhibition 1996
• Underground Photographer is to be edited by Kym ap Rhys and Paul Peppiatt
• The E.K. Tratman Award for the best piece of caving literature published in the UK in 1995 has been awarded to Paul Monico and CDG for the Northern Sump Index. The current judges' panel has members Ray Mansfield (Editor of Current Titles in Speleology), Roy Paulson (BCRA Librarian), and Nick Williams. To enter your publication for 1996, send a copy to Ray Mansfield, Downhead Cottage, Downhead, SHEPTON MALLET, Somerset BA4 4LG.
• Plans to float Cave Surveying Group
• New Members