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The Wookey Hole Witch has cooked up a cauldron full of treats for visitors to Somerset’s magical inland attraction this Easter.

With more than 20 indoor and outdoor attractions included in the ticket price and an Easter gift for each child, Easter at Wookey Hole Caves provides a whole day out with enough excitement to keep the whole family entertained.

Running from 6-28 April the Easter break also includes games and competitions as well as the usual history and mystery the attraction is known for.

As ever, the Witch of Wookey Hole will be lurking in the shadows ready to meet, greet and cackle with guests while the numerous soft play areas, adventure playgrounds, mirror mazes and specialist museums onsite provide family fun whatever the weather.

The 4D cinema is showing a new movie for 2019 – Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs 4D experience – which will take audiences on an unforgettable adventure and the Circus Show will be performed daily in the Big Top Theatre.

The world-renowned cave tours will be running daily to educate and excite guests. The labyrinthine cave system made up of caverns and tunnels is famous the world over and, with recently discovered new caves, visitors will be amazed by the vast spectacle of natural beauty.

If the British Springtime weather is kind there is plenty to do outdoors too. Dinosaur Valley and the new life-sized animatronic dinosaurs that live there are waiting to be explored and Pirate Adventure Golf also provides al fresco fun.

There will be another Easter Trail and Treasure Hunt, with visitors hunting letters to uncover the secret word and receive an Easter treat.

Wookey Hole Caves’ renowned circus shows offer dazzling displays including hula hooping, trapeze and roller skating – prepare to be amazed and enthralled by the thrill of our high energy, fast moving show.

And in the last week of the holidays the resort will be running a circus skills workshop from Tuesday to Friday 23 – 26 April – adding a third week to the holidays to accommodate visitors from outside our region.

The Wookey Witch said: “The great thing about Wookey Hole is the fantastic value for money it offers. Nowhere else will you find such an eclectic collection of top-quality attractions under one ticket price.

“There’s enough to do here to keep everyone happy and interested all day long, which for parents with a whole two week break to plan, is invaluable.

“There’s even the option to stay at Wookey Hole Hotel and Bucklegrove to extend the fun even further and explore what else Somerset has to offer.

“Easter is a great time to visit – the weather is usually looking up and our Egg-stravaganza event is really special for visiting children.”

Those who book a hotel break at Wookey Hole Hotel and Bucklegrove over Easter will get their attraction tickets and breakfast for free.

The Easter package for a family of four also includes one night’s accommodation, a round of adventure golf, £100 of savings on local days out, free fun packs for kids and free entry into the Mill and children’s play barns in the evening. Prices for this start from just £139 based on two adults and two children sharing.

Tickets for Easter at Wookey Hole can be booked online with up to 15% off. Visit www.wookey.co.uk for more information.

Shifting sediments deep beneath the Mendip Hills have revealed a complete ceramic pot as well as the top of another and pottery sherds dating back to the Roman occupation.

The first pot – round with a narrow neck and small pouring handle – was discovered along with two sherds from a larger pot some four metres down in the underwater passages connecting chambers three and four at Wookey Hole Caves in Somerset.

The top section of a second pot, similar in style, turned up in the resurgence, or cave mouth, a few weeks after the first items were recovered.

Divers Michael Thomas and his son Robert were training when they made the original discovery.

The pot and sherds were taken to former Time Team regular and Roman specialist Mark Corney for identification.

Miranda Litchfield from Wookey Hole Caves said: “To find a complete pot is extremely rare. To find these items inside a cave system is rarer still. We are eagerly awaiting the results of the investigation to try and date and better identify the pot and shards found. It is very unusual to discover a pot in such excellent condition.”

Cave divers Michael and Robert Thomas had swum around a metre off the normal route and caught a glimpse of the pot in their torch beams.

Michael Thomas’ photograph is taken of the first pot in situ, covered in a layer of silt which up until 2019, had kept this treasure completely hidden.

“Vince Simmonds’ photograph shows the first pot after a professional cleaning. This photo was taken prior to it being sent to a specialist for investigation.

“It’s fantastic to think how the cave system keeps surprising us, revealing artefacts of this quality and obvious antiquity.

“The scope for further controlled underwater excavations is tantalising. Wookey Hole Caves is often regarded as the ‘Mecca’ of UK cave diving and what lies beyond the water’s edge, could be a treasure trove of ancient relics – just waiting to be discovered.”

Initial examination suggests all the items were late third-fourth century flasks or flagons from the Oxford or New Forest pottery industries – which were active during Roman rule.

Miranda Litchfield went on: “It is hoped to display the finds in the Cave Diving museum once identification work has been completed. With all new artefacts and discoveries, part of the professional process is to make them accessible to the public.

“This might turn out to be one of the greatest archaeological discoveries ever made at Wookey Hole Caves.”

Many items have been washed out of the caves over the years including skulls and bones from what is believed to be a burial chamber deep in the heart of the Mendips. These chambers have long since been flooded by the River Axe.

In June 1946 a skull, bones and a Romano-British pot were discovered just upstream of The Witch. Pottery is often identified as grave goods – containers for food for the journey to the after-life.

Circus of Horrors – 18th / 19th October 2018

After taking to the road over 22 years ago and touring all over the world the phenomenon returns with its latest brand new incarnation “Psycho Asylum”.

The spectacular features an amazing amalgamation of bizarre & fantastic circus acts act’s all woven into a sensational shock / horror storey and the darkest of magic – taking the show to a whole new level, it’s driven by a mainly original soundscape & performed with a forked tongue firmly in each cheek, you’ll certainly Die Laughing.

Whitsun at Wookey Hole

26 May – 3 June

We’re going Dinosaur mad again!

Come and meet our NEW Animatronic Dinosaurs! Walk among these giants and see how many you can name.

Our 4D cinema will be playing Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs to really get you feeling pre-historic! Tour the famous caves, meet the Witch of Wookey Hole and watch our amazing circus shows!