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Perfidy Caves

The Grove, Portland.

NGR:SY 6945 7240
WGS84:50.55056, -2.43257
Length:50 m
Depth:Not recorded
Altitude:Not recorded
Tags:Cave, Lost
Registry:mcr-d

Well-developed set of phreatic passages intersected and destroyed by quarrying. Fine examples of their local type, in the Roach bed.

Alternative Names: None recorded.

Notes: Karst cave. Lost

Hydrographic Feeds: Long-lost to erosion of catchment. Some evidence of river valleys to E & W of Portland.

Hydrographic Resurgences: Unknown.

Surveys:
Perfidy Caves (lost), Wessex Cave Club, 1990

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This entry was last updated: 2020-05-01 20:05:05

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