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Windy Dig

Westcliff, Portland.

NGR:SY 67963 70700
WGS84:50.53519, -2.45341
Length:55 m
Depth:Not recorded
Altitude:Not recorded
Tags:Cave
Registry:mcr-d

Sporting gull-cave with 2 short pitches. Entrance alongside well maintained climbers path (2020) which descends from cliff-top path to the 'Battleship' area below.

The 'Sword of Damocles' stalactite was stolen c.1970, by visiting "cavers".

Alternative Names: None recorded.

Notes: Mass-movement (Gull) cave

Surveys:
Windy Dig, Weymouth Venture Scouts / Dorset Caving Group, 1971
Windy Dig, Leicester University Speleological Society, 1970

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