Pierre’s Pot
Pierre's Pot is a karst cave in Burrington Combe on the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England. The cave was discovered in 1983 and has two main levels, the lower level being reached through an extremely tight rift.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Goatchurch Cavern and Sidcot Swallet.
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 480 feet southwest of Pierre’s Pot.
Sidcot Swallet
Cave
Sidcot Swallet is a cave near Burrington Combe, in the Carboniferous Limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England. It was named after the Sidcot School Speleological Society who explored it in 1925. Sidcot Swallet is situated 380 feet southwest of Pierre’s Pot.
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 990 feet north of Pierre’s Pot.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Burrington and Black Down.
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.
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.
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. Rowberrow is situated 1½ miles west of Pierre’s Pot.
Pierre’s Pot
- Type: Cave
- Description: Cave in Somerset, England
- Category: landform
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.32201° or 51° 19′ 19″ northLongitude
-2.7529° or 2° 45′ 10″ westOpen location code
9C3V86CW+RROpenStreetMap ID
node 600671466OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cave_entranceWikidata ID
Q7191954
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In Other Languages
“Pierre’s Pot” goes by many names.
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيير بوت”
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