312 cover: Violet Hill under the first ice plug in Morrón del Torco, Ario Photo: Bartek Biela
312 back cover: Nicola Bayley in Bakerloo Straight, Dan Yr Ogof. This image appears in our new Pot Trumps card game, raising money for the British Cave Rescue Council Photo: Andy Harp

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Descent (312), October 2026

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Cave Art on Gower
George Nash, from the Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool, describes the rediscovery of Late Upper Palaeolithic painted imagery at Bacon Hole in South Wales.

Fire and Ice in the Picos
Chris Curry and Mark Sims report on this year’s Ario Caves Project expedition.

Downstream Breakthrough in Redhouse
Tim Nichols reports on yet more discoveries in the Forest of Dean’s stunning Redhouse Lane Swallet.

Microplastics Underground
Is anywhere safe from plastic pollution? Maria Zainab has been studying the presence of microplastics in some of Britain’s caves.

May I Have a Word?
Alan Jeffreys points out a simple mistake that many journalists are wont to include in any writing about caves.

The Lows and Highs of Wales
Oliver Hill describes a long, long day combining caving, cycling and hillwalking to reach the deepest and highest natural points in Wales within 24 hours.

Remembering Harry Long
The death of Harry Long has left the caving world a poorer place. Here, some of his close friends and caving companions pay tribute.

The Early Years in South Wales
As both South Wales Caving Club and the Cave Diving Group, which was founded in the Swansea Valley, celebrate their 80th years in 2026, Martyn Farr describes some of the major caving activity in South Wales’s distant past.

Front cover:Violet Hill under the first ice plug in Morrón del Torco, Ario. Photo: Bartek Biela

Back cover: Nicola Bayley in Bakerloo Straight, Dan Yr Ogof. This image appears in our new Pot Trumps card game, raising money for the British Cave Rescue Council. Photo: Andy Harp

 

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