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Robert's Paradise SSSS-32-N South Rift Sandford Rake Classic Shaft Summit Plantation Mine Deep Groove Mine Sandford Gulf Scum Hole MCRA-SH-11 Rabbit Hole Sandford Hill Mine No.3 Fern Mine Pearl Mine MCRA-SH-12 Shaft 120 Saville Row Shaft No.1 Whispering Gallery Saville Row Shaft No.3 Groof House Shafts Coffee Pot Rock Girt Pit Triple Hole Elephant Cave Sandford Bone Fissure Sandford Rifts East SSSS-22-B SSSS-22-O SSSS-22-F Udders Hole SSSS-52-D Sandford Hill Mine No.2 SSSS-22-N Stanton's Shaft Gran's Discovery Ellis' Wonder MCRA-SH-10 MCRA-SH-4 Girl's Hole MCRA-SH-8 SSSS-43-G Sandford East Ochre Mine Pseudo Udders Hole MCRA-SH-1 MCRA-SH-7 SMCC-10 MCRA-SH-2 ACG-07 MCRA-SH-3 SMCC-12 SMCC-7 Bat Hole Sandford Hill Mine No.4 SMCC-4 Sandford Levvy SMCC-8 ACG-05 MCRA-SH-13 High Mine SSSS-22-K SMCC-14 King Mine MCRA-SH-14 Mangle Hole SMCC-15 Holly Shafts Sandford Quarry Mine SMCC-17 SMCC-18 Test Mine MCRA-SH-6 MCRA-SH-5 SMCC-19 ACG-27
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Sandford Wood, Sandford Hill.
NGR: | ST 42933 58957 |
WGS84: | 51.32684, -2.82041 |
Length: | 50 m |
Depth: | 35 m |
Altitude: | 125 m |
Tags: | Mine, Shaft |
Registry: | westmendip |
Also known as Skeleton Shaft or SSSS-32-P, when explored by SSSS in 1949 it consisted of a 35m deep narrow, steeply sloping shaft leading to a short section of natural passage. Later records showed it to be blocked at a depth of 3m and it now appears to have disappeared altogether.
Alternate Names: Skeleton Shaft, SSSS-32-P
Notes: Ref: SSSS Logbook 5 pp 21-25 (1949-1952)
Surveys:
Skeleton Rift, Askins, M.R., 1950
Skeleton Rift, Askins, M.R., 1950
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