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Skeleton Rift Robert's Paradise SSSS-32-N Sandford Rake Classic Shaft Deep Groove Mine Summit Plantation Mine Sandford Hill Mine No.3 Sandford Gulf Scum Hole MCRA-SH-11 Rabbit Hole MCRA-SH-12 Fern Mine Pearl Mine Shaft 120 Saville Row Shaft No.1 Whispering Gallery Saville Row Shaft No.3 SSSS-22-O Triple Hole Groof House Shafts SSSS-52-D Sandford Rifts East Udders Hole Coffee Pot Elephant Cave Rock Girt Pit Sandford Hill Mine No.2 Sandford Bone Fissure SSSS-22-N SSSS-22-B SSSS-22-F Stanton's Shaft Sandford East Ochre Mine Girl's Hole Gran's Discovery Ellis' Wonder MCRA-SH-10 Sandford Hill Mine No.4 SSSS-43-G SSSS-22-K High Mine MCRA-SH-4 MCRA-SH-8 Pseudo Udders Hole MCRA-SH-1 SMCC-10 MCRA-SH-7 MCRA-SH-13 MCRA-SH-2 ACG-07 MCRA-SH-3 SMCC-12 Bat Hole SMCC-7 MCRA-SH-14 SMCC-4 Sandford Levvy SMCC-8 ACG-05 SMCC-14 SMCC-15 King Mine Test Mine Mangle Hole Sandford Quarry Mine Holly Shafts
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Sandford Wood, Sandford Hill.
| NGR: | ST 4294 5889 |
| WGS84: | 51.32623, -2.82030 |
| Length: | 12 m |
| Depth: | 9 m |
| Altitude: | 117 m |
| Tags: | Mine, Shaft |
| Registry: | westmendip |
A partially natural mine explored by ACG in 1972. A vertical pit leads to a steep rift, where a wriggle over a choke gains access to a short section of natural cave. The NGR quoted in the original ACG report is incorrect, which may have contributed to the same site later being 'rediscovered' and christened Little Wood Mine. The entrance is currently blocked with a pile of boulders (2014).
Alternate Names: Little Wood Mine
Notes: C. Richards, South Rift - a mined cave on the south side of Sandford Hill, Winscombe ACG N/L (July 1972) p 22
Anon, Summit Plantation Mine, Little Wood Mine, ACG N/L (July 1981)
Surveys:
Little Wood Mine, Rogers, Colin et al, 1981
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