Red Rose Cave and Pothole Club - Newsletter Vol 6 No 4 - Aug/Sept  1969

BULL POT OF THE WITCHES

News of Survey and further discoveries. We have finally completed the full survey and providing we don’t make any more discoveries I will soon have the finished plan and e1evation(6’x2’) coloured and framed for display at the Farm. surveys at half size l”=40’ will eventually be produced. Meanwhile we still continue to dig, prod and discover the odd passage. We have been especially fortunate during the last month in exploring a further extension off the Junction Chambers. This was the result of a hazardous meddle with a block fall. The passage entered is from 20' to 30’ in height and one progress by mainly walking and a succession of climbs to its end. The entire length runs parallel to the main sump passages and ends only 250' from Lancaster Hole. Its close proximity however is misleading as the passages in question are on different development. A previously known inlet off the ‘Dry Route’ to the main sump has been forced to within a few feet of the large shake hole below the limo kiln in the valley. Another encounter with block falls has revealed an old calcited passage heading west. A full report on this and the former find will be published in the next journal.

D. Baldwin.

 

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