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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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