Isle of Man

richardg

richardg

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Some time soon We are visiting the Isle of Man.

Could anyone help me with this please......

Has someone here got any information on any caves or Karst there please?

I have a memory of seeing a map of a short limestone cave and even the mention of a fossil ammonite in the same cave, but can not remember where I'd read that interesting article..


Richard Gibson....
 
richardg

richardg

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Hey Juan...Thank you for that    :coffee: (y)...and the cave has a stream running through it too!

I'm going to drop an email to the Quarry site owners to find out if the cave is still in existence ( not quarried away or buried under land fill  :mad:) and get their permission explore it  :kiss2:...

Do you know if there's a written description of the cave?

Richard
 
B

Blakethwaite

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There are mines, if that is your thing. A friend & I planned a visit a few years back for a week of mines, railways & beer but it fizzled out at an early stage due to a combination of it not being obvious how to arrange trips & (mainly) an overwhelming lassitude on both of our part...
 
rhychydwr1

rhychydwr1

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From my postcard collection:

Smugglers Cave, Port Soderick, Isle of Man

Hermit's Cave, Port Soderick, same as above?

Cave at Lynague, Peel.

Garwick Glen Caves - PC comes up on Ebay, regular.

Black Hole Cave, Port Ern [Erin?]

 
Juan

Juan

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As far as I'm aware, Turkeyland Quarry Cave is/was the only cave in limestone on the IOM. Alongside the survey, there is a description in MUSS Journal 7. I seem to remember that the "stream" was a tiny trickle. All the caves mentioned by rhychdwr1 are sea caves. The group to talk to for a mines visit is the Laxey Mines Research Group (formally the Manx Mines Research Group).
 
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