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Bowers Rift

Westcliff, Portland.

NGR:SY 695 718
WGS84:50.54516, -2.43181
Length:67 m
Depth:Not recorded
Altitude:Not recorded
Tags:Cave, Lost
Registry:mcr-d

Impressive, decorated fissure exposed and removed by quarry. Reportedly linked to parallel rift by a bedding-plane; strange in mass-movement cave terms.

Alternate Names: None recorded.

Notes: Mass-movement (Gull) cave. Lost

Surveys:
Bowers Rift (lost), Wessex Cave Club, 1991

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This entry was last updated: 2020-05-01 19:51:42

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