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Elephant Cave SSSS-22-O SSSS-22-N Summit Plantation Mine Sandford Bone Fissure SSSS-22-F Coffee Pot SSSS-22-B Rock Girt Pit Classic Shaft MCRA-SH-10 Sandford Hill Mine No.4 High Mine MCRA-SH-12 SSSS-22-K Sandford Quarry Mine Pearl Mine MCRA-SH-11 Test Mine SMCC-15 Sandford Rake Scum Hole Rabbit Hole SMCC-14 MCRA-SH-6 MCRA-SH-5 SSSS-32-N SMCC-18 Holly Shafts SMCC-17 SMCC-19 Sandford Gulf Mangle Hole Robert's Paradise Fern Mine Skeleton Rift SMCC-12 ACG-27 SMCC-10 Bat Hole ACG-26 ACG-07 South Rift MCRA-SH-4 SMCC-8 Groof House Shafts Spar Shaft MCRA-SH-3 MCRA-SH-2 SMCC-7 ACG-05 MCRA-SH-7 MCRA-SH-8 Auger's Mines Shaft 120 Saville Row Shaft No.1 Whispering Gallery Sandford Levvy Saville Row Shaft No.3 SMCC-4 Bighorn Rift Sandford Quarry Cave No.2 MCRA-SH-1 Pseudo Udders Hole Sandford Ochre Cave Deep Groove Mine King Mine Sandford Hill Mine No.3 Sandford Quarry Cave Sandford Rifts East Gran's Discovery
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Sandford Wood, Sandford Hill.
NGR: | ST 4268 5906 |
WGS84: | 51.32774, -2.82406 |
Length: | 152 m |
Depth: | 37 m |
Altitude: | 125 m |
Tags: | Cave, Mine |
Registry: | westmendip |
Triple Hole consists of three large rifts, interconnected and open to the surface.
Alternate Names: Sandford Rifts West, Triple Hole Cave
Notes: Although mostly natural the cave was undoubtedly exploited for their ochre deposits, probably during the 18th and 19th centuries. Ref: Mendip Underground, MCRA 2013 p 412-413.
Surveys:
Triple Hole, Jenkins, D., 1959
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