Banwell Ochre Caves
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There are five caves in total which contain the most extensive and accessible yellow ochre workings in the Mendip Hills. A wide variety of ochre types and iron hydroxides (limonites) can be examined in situ, and the evidence of their accumulation as residual ore-bodies associated with Ice Age (Pleistocene) sediments is clearly visible.[1] The caves are also a nesting site for the Horseshoe bat a protected species.[2]
The caves were first exploited for ochre mining in the 1930s and worked until 1948.[2]
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