Priddy Caves

Coordinates: 51°15′06″N 2°39′38″W / 51.2518°N 2.6605°W / 51.2518; -2.6605
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Priddy Caves
Notification
1965 (1965)
Natural England website

Priddy Caves (

notified
in 1965.

The entrance to St Cuthbert's Swallet is incorporated in the adjacent Priddy Pools SSSI. The Priddy Caves System contains about 16 km of surveyed cave passages divided between a number of major and minor networks. All the caves are sink hole systems, fed by sink holes at the ground surface. In all the caves, the detailed disposition and form of the passages can be seen clearly to have followed marked lines of natural weakness in the rocks.

The three largest networks,

clastic and stalagmite fills. Hunter's Hole is an excellent example of a shaft complex draining a closed depression. This cave differs from the others at Priddy in apparently not having formed as a stream swallet. Cave sediments found within the systems, together with the information which can be deduced from the physical form of the caves, provide geologists
with the means to obtain a better understanding of the geological evolution of southern Britain during the

References

  1. ^ "Priddy Caves" (PDF). English Nature. Retrieved 17 July 2006.

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