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The entrance to SYLVESTER POT is located in the bed of HOWE GILL about 100m above its confluence with EASE GILL BECK and on the left just below the first waterfall. Link to original exploration account. (1989)
Photo of How Gill from Ease Gill |
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The entrance crawl soon becomes low at
a squeeze which can become blocked by shingle. Beyond the
squeeze the passage opens out into a small chamber. To the
right here leads back to the entrance, but straight on
through boulders leads to a crawl and a vocal connection via
a 7m blind pot to the first pitch. To the right above the
blind pot is a sandy tunnel which breaks out over the top of
the 20m first pitch. The streamway above the first pitch can
be followed upstream for a few metres until it connects to
the entrance. Downstream two short cascades are descended to
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Scrambling over the boulders leads to a loose
breakdown chamber, while climbing down through the boulders leads to
a 3m climb and another very unstable breakdown chamber. The main way
on is along a crawl immediately at the base of the first pitch and a
junction is soon reached. To the left is the 7m second pitch
which can be descended via
two alternative holes to the MAIN CHAMBER. Back at the junction the
right hand crawl leads to a wide complex bedding, ROUTE 880.
MAIN CHAMBER
In the main chamber there are three ways on.
Descending the boulders in the floor of the chamber leads to the free
climbable 4m third pitch and then down through boulders to a small
streamway, 
UPPER
CLOUGH'S PASSAGE in COUNTY POT. The
water can be followed upstream for 40m to avens below the MAIN
CHAMBER and downstream to two climbs down into CLOUGH'S PASSAGE and
the way on to DISMAL JUNCTION
Above UPPER CLOUGH'S PASSAGE and before the two climbs down is a low crawl leading to to a series of rifts and sandy tunnels where the stream below can be heard, this is THE SAN ANDREAS FAULT PASSAGE.
Back in the MAIN CHAMBER the other two ways on are down the obvious rift at the other end of the chamber. This leads below the breakdown chambers at the base of the first pitch and is liberally endowed with loose boulders. Just after entering the rift a loose climb up on the left leads through to the connection to THE DELICATE SOUND of THUNDER and LUFF'S PASSAGE in COUNTY POT.
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ROUTE 880 is a wide low bedding
The avens leading out of NEWTON'S WONDER close down so please do not climb the formations!. A stream enters from the roof and is lost in the boulders which form the floor. It is assumed to be the stream in LUFF'S PASSAGE
Newton's Wonder |
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can be heard
