Proc. Univ. Bristol Spelacol. Soc, 19SlJ, 18(3), 367-389 PALAEOLITHIC AND PLEISTOCENE SITES OF THE MENDIP, BATH AND BRISTOL AREAS RECENT BIBLIOGRAPHY by R. W. MANSFIELD and D. T. DONOVAN Lists of references lo works on the Palaeolithic and Pleistocene of the area were published in these Proceedings in 1954 (vol. 7, no. 1) and 1964 (vol. 10, no. 2). In 1977 (vol. 14, no. 3) these were reprinted, being then out of print, by Hawkins and Tratman who added a list ai' about sixty papers which had come out between 1964 and 1977. The present contribution is an attempt to bring the earlier lists up to date. The 1954 list was intended to include all work before that date, but was very incomplete, as evidenced by the number of older works cited in the later lists, including the present one. In particular, newspaper reports had not been previously included, but are useful for sites such as the Milton Hill (near Wells) bone Fissure, as are a number of references in serials such as the annual reports of the British Association and of the Wells Natural History and Archaeological Society, which are also now noted for the first time. The largest number of new references has been generated by Gough's Cave, Cheddar, which has produced important new material as well as new studies of finds from the older excavations. The original lists covered an area from what is now the northern limit of the County of Avon lo the southern slopes of the Mendips. Hawkins and Tratman extended that area to include the Quaternary Burtle Beds which lie in the Somerset Levels to the south of the Mendips, and these are also included in the present list. The first two lists were accompanied by site indexes. Hawkins and Tratman did not update these, but provided a chronological table of local sites with references included. We include here a site index to the new references only. We have not attempted to put sites into a chronological framework. Previous lists were compiled as conventional card indexes. The present list has been filed on the IBM 360 mainframe computer installed by the University of Bristol in 1988. The FAMULUS bibliographic programme was used for compilation as it facilitates sorting and indexing. The FAMULUS files were then provided with appropriate formatting instructions and printed on an Agfa P400 PS printer for direct reproduction, thus obviating a further stage of typesetting and proofreading. We hope in future to enter the previous lists on the computer, with the object of providing a consolidated list of references and a comprehensive index, and perhaps on-line access. We thank Maggie Shapland of the University of Bristol Computer Centre for transferring data to the new computer. Ann French kindly did the formatting and printed out the final copy. 368 MANSFIELD & DONOVAN Corrigenda and Addenda The following mistakes have been found in earlier lists, and a few reprints are also noted below: Item 5. Date should be 1843 (corrected in 1977 reprint). 16B. Date of publication was probably 1931. 42. Reprinted in Proc, S.A.N.H.S. rt8, 21-26 (.1922). 69. A modern reprint was issued in 1973 by EP Publishing Ltd., Wakefield, Yorks., with a brief new foreword by D. C. Mellor. A German translation was published in 1876. 87. Title should read: 'An aeolian Pleistocene deposit . .' (corrected in 1977 reprint). 90. Volume no. should be 21 (corrected in 1977 reprint). 93C. Date of publication was not earlier than March, 1933. 96. Second edition 1962. 123A. Date of publication was probably 1929. 125. Pagination should be 46-53 (corrected in 1977 reprint). 158. Note that this was a re-issue with a new title page of item 261. 170. Date should be 1886 (corrected in 1977 reprint). 172. Was reprinted in Geological Magazine new ser. Decade 4, 5, 569, 570 (1899). 190. Reprinted in British Caver 26, 90-96 (1955). 286. Volume no. should be 253. 287. Does not refer to local sites. 289. Date should be 1938. 290. Date should be 1942. 304. Reference is: Journal of Glaciology 20 (no. 82), 173-188. 324. Previously listed as item 103. 328. Title should read: 'Glaciation . .' 340. This is the full reference to a paper listed, while in press, as item 269. 343. Pagination is 261-262. 345. Waginen should read Wageningen. 347. Is the same reference as 275. Abbreviations Axbridge //—Journal ol the Axbridge Caving and Archaeological Group (title varies slightly, and not all volumes are numbered systematically). Axbridge Newsi.—Newsletter of the same Group. B.C.R.A.—British Cave Research Association. M.N.R.C.—Mendip Nature Research Committee of the Wells Natural History and Archaeological Society. S.A.N.H.S.—Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society. BIBLIOGRAI'HY OP 1'ALAEOLITIUC & PLE13TOCBNB SITES 369 ALLEN, T D 1861. [Letter on the deposits in Banwcll Bone Cave]. Weston-super-Mare Gazelle, (24 Aug. 1861), iii. (not seen). AMBERS. J, MATTHEWS, EC & BURLEIGH, R 1985. British Museum natural radiocarbon measurements XVIII. Radiocarbon, 27(3), 508-524. ANDREWS, P 1978. Westbury-sub-Mendip ST 505505. Somerset Arch. & Nat. Hist., 121, 110,111. ANDREWS. P 1979. Weslbury Middle Pleistocene project. Somerset Arch. & Nat. Hist., 122, 121-123. Plan and section given. ANDREWS, P 1980. Westbury-sub-Mendip ST 506504. Somerset Arch. & Nat. Hist., 123, 86, 87. Diagrammatic section. Records "hitherto unrecognised warm and cold stages of the British Middle Pleistocene". ANDREWS, P 1981. Wcstbury-sub-Mendip ST 506 504. Somerset Arch. & Nat. Hist., 124, 121. ANDREWS, P & COOK, J 1985. Natural modifications to bones in a temperate setting. Man, 20, 675-691. Taphonomic research related to the investigation of animal bones at Westbury-sub-Mendip and other Mendip sites. ANON. 1827. Fossil remains. Gentleman's Magazine, 97(1), 351. Refers to Uphill Cavern. ANON. 1830. An address to the visitors a! Banwell Cave. Wells, Somerset, printed by B. Backhouse. 12 p. ANON. 1888. The Bekyngton guide to Wells Cathedral, and other objects of interest in the city and neighbourhood. Wells, Somerset, J. M. Atkins. 80 p. Refers to Wookey Hole, and W. Boyd Dawkins at the Hyaena Den, 57-. ANON. 1917. Annual excursion, July 12th, 1916. Annual Rep. Wells Nat. Hist. Arch, Soc., 28 (for 1916), 16, 17. "[In the Badger Hote| there exists beneath the superficial debris an older deposit, obviously of Pleistocene age, in which a flint knife and certain bones had been found in the previous year." ANON. 1926a. Important discoveries at Cheddar. Wells Journal, 22 January 1926. Quotes an article in the Weston-super-Mare Mercury (Palmer, 1926, q.v. ) re excavation at Chelms Combe rock shelter, Cheddar. ANON. 1926b. Wells archaeological meeting. Wells Journal, 19 February 1926. M.N.R.C report includes details of excavation at Chclms Combe rock shelter, Cheddar. ANON. 1927. Wells archaeological meeting. Welk Journal, 25 February 1927. Work at Chelms Combe, Cheddar. Also "at Easter 1926" a start was made with a wonderful Rock Shelter at Ebbor, in the eastern side of the ravine, rather more than half way up llie Cliff...' (which?) pottery, a cell and a flint knife found. ANON. 1934. Research items. Prehistoric pathology. Nature, 134, 902. Refers to VALLOIS. 1934, in which Aveline's Hole teeth arc cited. ANON. 1935a. Bones of Hippopotamus discovered in Wells Quarry. Prehistoric finds at Underwood. Wells Journal, 84, no. 6 (8 Feb. 1935), 1. First account of the "Milton Hill" find. ANON. 1935b. Hippopotamus in Somerset. Bones found near Wells. Quarrymen's discovery. The Western Gazette (N. & E. Somerset ed.), 10,305 (8 Feb. 1935), 3. Milton Hill. Hippo bones in a "I'illcd-up pit" at 14 ft depth. Also refers to rhino in the Wells gravels, New Street, Wells, and mammoth found in the gravels "many years ago" near Somerset & Dorset station, ANON. 1935c. The manager, Mr. T. B. Gill, and the chief guide, Mr. Painter, examining a reindeer's jaws found during a recent excavation in Gough's Cave, Cheddar. Bristol Evening World, 1,657, 7. Caption to a picture taken in the cave. Gill probably on left. Painter on right, donkey in foreground left. Two workmen in background. ANON. 1936. Prehistoric finds at Milton. Wells Journal, 85, no. 47 (20 Nov. 1936), 1. Second part of the Milton Hill find. ANON. 1937a. 12,000 years old man tells us of Cheddar's history. Weston Super Mare Gazette, 4,731 (31 July 1937), 5, 9. Photo (p. 9) shows [Cheddar Manj as newly mounted on a board by Prof. M. Rix, flanked by two unidentified Recent men. 370 MANSriHLD & DONOVAN ANON. 1937b. A Cheddar discovery 12,000 year-old human remains Cave-man of sub-glacial period. Western Gazelle (N. & E. Somerset ed.), 10,433 (30 July 1937), 15. In fact refers to the "Cheddar Man" find of 1903. ANON. !937c. Stone age skeleton in a cave. News Chronicle, 28,466 (24th July 1937), 3. Cheddar Man at Gough's Cave being cleaned and assembled by Professor M. Rix of Oxford. ANON. 1937d. The finds on Milton Hill. Thrilling report on excavation. Wells archaeologists' meeting. Western Gazette (N. & E. Somerset ed.), 10,408 (5 Feb. 1937), 11. Balch's brief report of further finds of mammal bones at Milton Hill. ANON. 1948a. M.N.R.C. Report for 1946. Ann. Rep. Wells Nat. Hist. & Arch. Soc, for 1942-1946, 46-48. Badger Hole. Mammoth tusk, cave bear skull, flints found. ANON. 1948b. Notes and news. Somerset. Archaeol. News!., 1(1), 15, 16. Refers to excavations at Badger Hole. ANON. 1950. M.N.R.C. Report for 1948. 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