| Priddy Caves | |
|---|---|
| Area of Search | Somerset |
| Grid Reference | ST540505 |
| Interest | Geological |
| Area | 67. Areas of Search (AOSs are geographical areas used in the selection of Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Grid references define locations on Maps using Cartesian coordinates. 6 hectare (167. Explanation The hectare is commonly used in most countries around the world especially in domains concerned with land planning and management such as Agriculture, 0 acre) |
| Notification | 1965 |
| Location Map | English Nature |
Priddy Caves (grid reference ST540505) is an Area: 67. A Site of Special Scientific Interest or SSSI is a Conservation designation denoting a Protected area in the United Kingdom. The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using Latitude and Longitude 6 hectare (167. Explanation The hectare is commonly used in most countries around the world especially in domains concerned with land planning and management such as Agriculture, 0 acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest at Priddy in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, notified in 1965. A Site of Special Scientific Interest or SSSI is a Conservation designation denoting a Protected area in the United Kingdom. Priddy is a village in Somerset, England in the Mendip Hills, close to East Harptree and north west of Wells. The Mendip Hills (commonly called The Mendips) are a range of Limestone hills situated to the south of Bristol and Bath in Somerset Somerset ( or) is a county in south west England The County town is Taunton, which is in the south of the county A Site of Special Scientific Interest or SSSI is a Conservation designation denoting a Protected area in the United Kingdom.
The entrance to St Cuthbert's Swallet is incorporated in the adjacent Priddy Pools SSSI. St Cuthbert's Swallet ( is a cave which forms a major part of the Priddy Caves system in the Limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, Priddy Pools ( is a 527 Hectare (1302 acre Geological Site of Special Scientific Interest at Priddy in the Mendip Hills, Somerset
The Priddy Caves System contains about 16km 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. A sinkhole, also known as a sink, shake hole, swallow hole, swallet, doline or Cenote, is a natural depression 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, Swildon's Hole, St Cuthbert's Swallet and Eastwater Cavern exceed 100 metres in depth. Swildon's Hole ( is an extensive Cave in Priddy, Somerset. The first recorded exploration occurred in 1901 and new sections have frequently been St Cuthbert's Swallet ( is a cave which forms a major part of the Priddy Caves system in the Limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, Eastwater Cavern ( is a cave near Priddy in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England. Swildon's Hole is a world famous example of a shallow depth phreatic cave, which shows a very well developed dendritic pattern of drainage and contains extensive clastic and stalagmite fills. Swildon's Hole ( is an extensive Cave in Priddy, Somerset. The first recorded exploration occurred in 1901 and new sections have frequently been The term phreatic is used in Earth sciences to refer to matters relating to ground water below the static Water table (the word originates from the Greek Dendrites (from Greek δένδρον déndron, “tree” are the branched projections of a Neuron that act to conduct the electrochemical Clastic rocks are composed of fragments or clasts, of pre-existing rock. A stalagmite (from the Greek stalagma ("Σταλαγμίτης" "drop" or "drip" is a 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 Ice Ages. An ice age is a period of long-term reduction in the Temperature of the Earth 's surface and atmosphere resulting in an expansion of continental Ice sheets [1]
References
- ^ Priddy Caves (PDF). English Nature. Retrieved on 2006-07-17. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 180 - Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians
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