Red Rose Cave and Pothole
Club - Newsletter Vol. 6 No 1. - November
1969
AYGILL -
Easter.
Party:- C. Hadwin,
D. Baldwin, R. Calvert, D. Creedy, P. Clayton and
Brian
The
original intensions of the party were to visit the Red Rose Chambers, but as
only three of us were equipped (willing) to get wet we decided to concentrate
our efforts in the dry series above the cascades.
We
first visited the inlet series and explored thoroughly the many twisting inlet
passages. Returning to the junction Roger and myself climbed into the roof and
followed some well decorated oxbows to a high dry fissure above the second
junction. Climbing above the cascades took us into a further series of dry
oxbows and old inlets, disappointingly most were found to be choked others
leading back down to the stream.
At
the foot of the 20ft. pitch a narrow passage was found leading off the fossil
level, it led down a tight squeeze into a small chamber containing the remnants
of a calcite floor. Although it became choked a strong draught was felt and the
sound of running water could be heard beneath the boulders, later some of the
party braved the cold water and reached the main sump.