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Bos Swallet

Link Lane, Burrington Combe.

NGR:ST 47086 58363
WGS84:51.32190, -2.76072
Length:78 m
Depth:42 m
Altitude:178 m
Tags:Cave, Archaeo, Sink, CROW
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
Bos Swallet, Burrington Combe, Somerset, Mullan, G.J., 1997
Bos Swallet, Burrington Combe, Somerset, Mullan, G.J., 1997

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