Table of Contents

1. The Mapping and Making of the Mendip Landscape (Jim Hanwell)
2. Assessing the Environmental History of Mendip: a Palaeoecological Perspective (Paul Davies)
3. The Late Pleistocene Mammalian Palaeontology and Archaeology of Mendip (Roger Jacobi and Andrew Currant)
4. On Top of the World: The Mesolithic and Neolithic use of the Mendip Plateau (Jodie Lewis)
5. Barrows and Bronzes: The Bronze Age on Mendip (David Mullin)
6. East Mendip, Cropmarks, Field Survey and the Iron Age (Ian Powlesland)
7. Iron Age Cave Use on Mendip: a Revaluation (Abigail Bryant)
8. Roman Mining of Galena at Charterhouse on Mendip in the 1st century AD (Malcolm Todd)
9. Romans on the Fosse Way (Peter Leach)
10. Praedium on Mendip? (Albert Thompson)
11. Early Settlement Around the Mendips; Place-Names and Local History (Michael Costen)
12. Chew and Chewton: a Pre-Conquest River Estate North of Mendip (Nick Corcos)
13. The Acquisition and Exploitation of Monastic Holdings in the Mendip Region (James Bond)
14. The Post-Medieval Landscape of Mendip (Penny Stokes)
15. Mendip Starfish (Don Brown)
16. Beyond the Hillfort: Unfamiliar Aspects of Prehistoric and Later Times on Worlebury (Chris Richards)
17. Archaeology for the People. Mendip, CHERT and Other Stories (Vince Russett)
18. The Aggregate Landscape of Somerset: Predicting the Archaeological Resource (Hannah Firth and Krystyna Truscoe)
19. A View from Below: the Wetland Setting of the Mendips (Richard Brunning)

Reviews

Destined to become a standard reference on the subject and highly likely to be consulted by cavers... That this is an academic book is almost hidden by its accessibility and readability, given that learned papers are so often narrow and of restricted interest; as a committed sport caver do not allow its title to put you off. It is well worth your attention.' -- Descent Descent