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Read's Cavern

Link Lane, Burrington Combe.

NGR:ST 4682 5844
WGS84:51.32256, -2.76455
Length:1224.5 m
Depth:62.98 m
Altitude:151 m
Tags:Cave, Archaeo, Sink, CROW
Registry:mcr-cn

Steep passage leads to large chamber with a maze of passages leading off at both ends. Unstable in many places. Of archaeological importance.

Alternate Names: Celtic Cavern, Keltic Cavern, Fox Hole Swallet, Swallet E

Hydrographic Resurgences: Langford Rising, Rickford Rising

Surveys:
The Keltic Cavern, Palmer, L.S., 1920
Read's Cavern, Palmer, L.S., 1920
Read's Cavern, UBSS
Plan and Elevation of Read's Cave, UBSS
Keltic (Read's) Cavern, Stride, R.D., 1944
(Read's cavern), Hall, T., 1945
Read's Cavern, UBSS, 1946
Read's Cavern, UBSS, 1946
Read's Cavern
Read's Cavern, Atkinson, A., 2015

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