Newsletters

The club publishes a regular professionally printed full colour magazine, ‘The CSS Newsletter’, containing a round up of members’ caving trip reports, news, reviews, photos and more. This is produced quarterly and is sent to club members as well as UK and international caving clubs in a publication exchange scheme.

All newsletter issues from year 2000 onwards are available on this website as PDF files in the newsletter archive.

Newsletter Archive
The CSS Newsletter

An Exploration Journal of Llangattwg Mountain

A detailed description of all caves of the Llangattock escarpment, including surveys, route finding information and some of the fascinating history of exploration, digging and new discoveries between 1980 and 1992. A must-have for all cavers and cave diggers with an interest in the major cave systems of Daren Cilau, Agen Allwedd and Craig a Ffynnon, and the plethora of smaller caves in between.

Printed copies are available to buy at CSS Whitewalls for £15.

Records, Journals and Special Publications

The club has long been actively involved in the exploration and surveying of underground features in the south east of England. These range from stone, chalk and sand mines, to Deneholes and natural chalk cavities and caves. Focus of attention has shifted to south east Wales in recent years and volumes 19, 28, 30 and 33 all contain articles on finds there. Volumes 21 and 25 describe explorations and finds in the far north of Norway.

With the exception of volumes 19 and 33 the club is no longer (as of 2025) offering the sale of printed copies; instead the majority of these publications are being made freely available as electronic downloads from this website. This is a work in progress – see the download links in table below for the volumes that are currently available.

A detailed contents list for these publications is available here: CSS Records Catalogue

Vol Title Year Pages Download
3 Secret Tunnels in Surrey 1963 61 4.0 MB
4 Deneholes - Part 1 1965 72 5.4 MB
5 More Secret Tunnels in Surrey 1968 82 5.1 MB
6 Caves and Tunnels in Kent 1973 106 6.5 MB
7 Caves and Tunnels in S.E. England - Part 1 1976 42 2.6 MB
8 Caves and Tunnels in S.E. England - Part 2 1978 45 1.6 MB
9 Caves and Tunnels in S.E. England - Part 3 1979 56 3.0 MB
10 Deneholes - Part 2 1979 116 5.6 MB
11 Caves and Tunnels in S.E. England - Part 4 1982 70 2.7 MB
13 Caves and Tunnels in S.E. England - Part 5 1983 68 3.2 MB
14 Caves and Tunnels in S.E. England - Part 6 1984 59 2.7 MB
15 Caves and Tunnels in S.E. England - Part 7 1987 42 1.4 MB
16 Caves and Tunnels in S.E. England - Part 8 1988 54 2.9 MB
17 Caves and Tunnels in S.E. England - Part 9 1990 51 2.7 MB
19 An Exploration Journal of Llangattwg Mountain 1992 149 Print only
20 Caves and Tunnels in S.E. England - Part 10 1992 74 1.9 MB
21 The Caves of Svenningdal (Norway) 1992 37 3.2 MB
22 Caves and Tunnels in S.E. England - Part 11 1996 60 2.1 MB
23 Caves and Tunnels in S.E. England - Part 12 1997 80 1.9 MB
24 Caves and Tunnels in S.E. England - Part 13 1998 62 3.1 MB
25 Caves of Marble (Norway) 1999 56 9.1 MB
26 Caves and Tunnels in S.E. England - Part 14 2001 64 2.7 MB
27 Caves and Tunnels in S.E. England - Part 15 2002 62 -
28 Exploring Welsh Caves 1994/95 2004 67 -
29 Cave Conservation 2004 10 -
30 Exploring Welsh Caves 1995/96 2004 45 -
31 Caves and Tunnels in S.E. England - Part 16 2004 55 -
32 Caves and Tunnels in S.E. England - Part 17 2006 51 -
33 CSS 50th Anniversary Journal 2006 120 -
34 Caves and Tunnels in S.E. England - Part 18 2008 47 -
35 Caves and Tunnels in S.E. England - Part 19 2010 60 -
36 Caves and Tunnels in S.E. England - Part 20 2012 50 -

Volumes 12 and 18 were compilation indexes of the previous volumes.