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Make use of our indexes and, now online: search titles of articles in Descent as well as the location of all surveys, maps and authors of all articles.


Bind your editions of Descent and build a reference tool with all the major discoveries reported. Each issue of Descent includes cross-references to earlier reports, so you will always have these at your fingertips. For more information, click HERE

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As well as searching for all words, any words or an exact phrase, you may use a wildcard (*) to represent any part of a word. For example, although it might not be the most useful thing to search for, cave* will locate cave, caves, caver, cavers, cavern and caverns.

The query (?) will substitute for any single unknown character, which might be used if you cannot remember how to spell the word you are looking for. As an example, if you are not sure whether the correct spelling is Draenen or Dreanen (it's Draenen, by the way), search for Dr??nen.

Using the Boolean term NOT will restrict your search (eg. Ffynnon NOT Ddu would find Ogof Craig-a-Ffynnon and Ogof Ffynnon Taf but not Ogof Ffynnon Ddu).

You may also elect to search only Descent back issues (and associated pages) or books. Using the full search includes the survey index.

From the results page you may return here using the 'Go Back' link at the top or follow any result direct to its page by clicking on the blue title.

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Descent is partially (but extremely fully) indexed on paper, with issues (1) to (133) so far covered by published indexes. In addition, an online index to all authors of major articles and all surveys and area maps in Descent has been added to this website. Follow the links to the index pages, or use the search facility here: entries in both indexes are covered by this search.