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Stock Hill Swallet Vole Hole St. Cuthbert's Lead Flue No.1 Hunters' Lodge Inn Sink Stock Hill Old Trial Shaft
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Stock Hill Cottages, Priddy.
NGR: | ST 54945 50576 |
WGS84: | 51.25256, -2.64697 |
Length: | 1050 m |
Depth: | 91 m |
Altitude: | 264 m |
Tags: | Cave, Mine, Dig |
Registry: | mcr-cs |
Descent of 10m shaft allows access to abandoned dig in natural side passage.
Further descent of second shaft leads to steeply descending passages, a large chamber and blasted passage leading to tight rift passage. This joins a large dipping passage and an active streamway, the current end is a shallow sump, dived by CDG but is too tight.
A higher-level dig, to bypass this sump has been abandoned. A slippery climb, just before the sump has been dug open to reach yet another streamway which has been pushed upstream via a bolted pitch to an aven to within 25m of the surface. Downstream initial progress was halted by a tight rift but blasting in Feb 2022 has led to c134m of descending rift passages, mostly involving strenuous traversing to reach the terminal point, a seasonably sumped area which will require the removal of a large quantity of sandy infill to pass, this is currently a work in progress and is the deepest part of the cave. The combined stream sinks in the floor of the rift after 45m and is not seen again, the rift has been descended to give access to a currently too tight passage heading in the up dip direction: further work is needed here.
At the bottom of the main down dip passage a 5m climb reaches a blasted rift leading to the impressive Stiegl Chamber and the resurging Diving Board sump, with no way on as proved by CDG diving. The water from the sump enters a narrow rift which protracted blasting has been regained but sumps again almost immediately, this water re-enters the cave at the Font via dug passage at the Cobble Choke.
Updip from the breakthrough point, in the main passage, a slippery climb reaches an extensive series of chambers and two separate streamways (which eventually join) with avens with sandstone run-in terminating close to the surface. A large strike-controlled passage, above the lower sections of the two streamways, has numerous avens (one reaching nearly to the surface). from the smaller stream a narrow, wet tube leads to larger passage again with avens reaching close to the surface.
Alternate Names: None recorded.
Notes: The most northerly point of the larger upstream passage terminates in an aven approximately 10 - 15 m south of the presumed location of Stock Hill Swallet.
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This entry was last updated: 2024-03-06 18:23:50
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