Read’s Cavern

Read's Cavern is a cave at Burrington Combe, Somerset, England, in which traces of Iron Age occupation have been found. It lies under Dolebury Hill. Its large main chamber has a boulder ruckle floor and is parallel to a cliff face.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Rod’s Pot and Aveline’s Hole.

Rod’s Pot

Cave

Photo: Tomasz Tocataco, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Rod's Pot is a limestone cave above Burrington Combe in the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England. The cave was first excavated in 1944 by the University of Bristol Spelæological Society. Rod’s Pot is situated 1,300 feet east of Read’s Cavern.

Aveline’s Hole

Cave

Photo: Rodw, Public domain.

Aveline's Hole is a cave at Burrington Combe in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England. The earliest scientifically dated cemetery in Britain, 10,200 and 10,400 years old, was found at Aveline's Hole, constituting the largest assemblage of Mesolithic human remains found in Britain. Aveline’s Hole is situated 2,700 feet east of Read’s Cavern.

Goatchurch Cavern

Cave

Photo: Goatchurch, Public domain.

Goatchurch Cavern is a cave on the edge of Burrington Combe in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England. Goatchurch Cavern is situated 2,500 feet east of Read’s Cavern.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Burrington and Rowberrow.

Burrington

Village

Photo: Rodw, Public domain.

Burrington is a small village and civil parish in Somerset, England. It is situated in the unitary authority of North Somerset, just off the A368 between Blagdon and Churchill.

Rowberrow

Hamlet

Photo: Rodw, Public domain.

Rowberrow is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Shipham in the Somerset district, in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England.

Black Down

Locality

Photo: Jsommer, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Black Down is the highest hill in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, in south-western England. Black Down lies just a few miles eastward of the Bristol Channel at Weston-super-Mare, and provides a view over the Chew Valley.

Read’s Cavern

Type: Cave
Description: cave in Somerset, United Kingdom
Category: landform
Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.32251° or 51° 19′ 21″ north

Longitude

-2.76459° or 2° 45′ 53″ west

Open location code

9C3V86FP+25

OpenStreetMap ID

node 552312629

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=cave_entrance

Wikidata ID

Q7300333

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