Shatter Cave - Citizendia

Shatter Cave
Location	Stoke St Michael
Coordinates	grid reference ST65734753
Geology	Limestone

Shatter Cave (grid reference ST65734753) is a cave in Fairy Cave Quarry, near Stoke St Michael in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England. Stoke St Michael is a village and Civil parish on the Mendip Hills 4 miles north east of Shepton Mallet, and 8 miles west of Frome, in the A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using Latitude and Longitude The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using Latitude and Longitude Fairy Cave Quarry ( is between Stoke St Michael and Oakhill in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England. Stoke St Michael is a village and Civil parish on the Mendip Hills 4 miles north east of Shepton Mallet, and 8 miles west of Frome, in the 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 England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland

It falls within the St. Dunstan's Well Catchment Site of Special Scientific Interest and has been described as being one of the finest decorated caves in Britain in terms of their sheer abundance of pure white and translucent calcite deposits. St Dunstan's Well Catchment ( is a Biological Site of Special Scientific Interest, covering near Stoke St Michael in the Mendip Hills, Somerset A Site of Special Scientific Interest or SSSI is a Conservation designation denoting a Protected area in the United Kingdom. Calcite is a carbonate mineral and the most stable polymorph of Calcium carbonate ( Ca[[carbon C]] O 3 ^[1]

‘A Study into the Microclimatology of Shatter Cave, southwest England with comparison to Uamh an Tartair, northwest Scotland’ was completed by Gina Moseley and presented to the British Cave Research Association in March, 2005.

The Fairy Caves Management Committee administers the access to this cave on behalf of the quarry owners.

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^ St. Dunstan's Well Catchment. English Nature. Retrieved on 2006-07-20. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1304 - Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle - King Edward I of England takes the last rebel stronghold

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