LINK POT

SD 6685 8035 Alt: 276m

Length 3.2km but part of Ease Gill Caverns System

Important cave that helped bridge the gap between the Easegill and Leck Fell systems.

Link to useful account of its original exploration by Northern Pennine Club

Looking down the 15 metre dugout entrance shaft of Link Pot	A wintery Ease Gill viewed from the N.W. Link Pot entrance is located below the cliff in the middle of the photograph.

WARNING

The Muddy Wallows on the route to Pippikin Pot become impassable in very wet weather and the Silver Streamway fills to the roof

A system of great variety and interest which join the caves of Leck Fell and Casterton Fell.

15m entrance shaft is narrow for the first 6m but bells out into shaft, a short descent from the foot of the pitch enters the splendid 5m square Hilton Hall. Upstream is a low bedding to a complete choke. Downstream leads quickly to a large boulder choke which has been ascended for 20m where all ways on are blocked. To the left of the choke a descent leads to a chamber with two ways on. Left is a flat out crawl back to Pybus By-pass, whilst right leads to ECHO AVEN and the connection to Stake Pot in LANCASTER HOLE

Back at the entry from the pitch into Hilton Hall a rift in the north wall chokes under the gill and the one in the south wall 6m downstream is blind, but above this a high level passage leads to Pybus By-pass. Pybus By-pass is a wriggle up into a roomy passage, under the right wall is the flat out crawl to the end of Hilton Hall and left is a climb into a short passage overlooking Hilton Hall south wall rift.

Straight ahead is the main passage with a fine false floor to SQUID JUNCTION. Here the right branch leads to SERENDIPITY and the rest of Link Pot, whilst left connects with Pippikin via an often wet and muddy crawl through the Muddy Wallows and Trowel Crawl passing various inlets and avens before arriving at Dusty Junction and the connection with MISTRAL HOLE and LOWER PIPPIKIN

R.R.C.P.C. 1999