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Grebe Swallet

Blackmoor Vale, Charterhouse-on-Mendip.

With its combination of natural and mined passages, Grebe Swallet Mine offers both a sporting trip and an insight into 18th century lead mining techniques. Miners' bootprints, mud graffiti (Young and Clark dated 1753) and large lumps of galena can be seen underground. Beyond the mined section, a natural cave continues to The Garden of Earthly Delights, a boulder ruckle which is currently being excavated. The entrance, also recorded as Glebe Swallet and Lower Flood Swallet, was first opened by the floods of 10 July 1968, when a short length of passage and considerable quantities of galena were discovered. The greater part of the cave was found by Willie Stanton and other WCC diggers in the early 1980s.

Alternate Names: Glebe Swallet, Lower Flood Swallet