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Bos Swallet

Mendip Lodge Wood, Burrington Combe.

NGR:ST 4709 5837
WGS84:51.32196, -2.76067
Length:78 m
Depth:42 m
Altitude:178 m
Classes:cave, archaeo, swallet
Registry:mcr-cn

From entrance crawl leads to Disappointment Chamber from which tube gains two pitches of 7m and 5m at bottom of which ends at a mud choked terminal rift.

Alternate Names: None recorded.

Notes: Dug open in 1946 by SSSS, extended to present limit during 1994-95 by UBSS. Archaeological dig at entrance by UBSS

Surveys:
Bos Swallet, Stanton, W.I., 1947
Rough survey of Bos Swallet, Stanton, W.I., 1947
Bos Swallet, Stanton, W.I., 1947
Bos Swallet, S(tanton), W.I., 1951
[Bos swallet], Wooley, R. and Halford, R.D., 1953

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