Marble Pot on the Allotment

[Caveman Ken]

Anyone have any recent knowledge of Marble Pot? Northern Caves says it is blocked but that was published in 1996. It may have been reopened by now? The first pitch has modern P bolts and modern style rigging, so I guess someone thought it was worth the time and effort. Any info gratefully received.

 

[Pitlamp]

Worth looking at Tony Waltham's image of the 1980 collapse of glacial till that blocked it. See page 85 in Cave & Karst of the Yorkshire Dales Volume 1 (2013).

Volume 2 (2017) page 363 gives useful detail of the exact position & nature of the slump.

It was a very big slump so if a club has re-opened it, good effort!

 

[Caveman Ken]

Worth looking at Tony Waltham's image of the 1980 collapse of glacial till that blocked it. See page 85 in Cave & Karst of the Yorkshire Dales Volume 1 (2013).

Volume 2 (2017) page 363 gives useful detail of the exact position & nature of the slump.

It was a very big slump so if a club has re-opened it, good effort!

Thanks it has grassed over now so that the slump looks much smaller.

 

[Alex]

I was down Marble Pot a couple of years back after a quick attempt on Marble sink. It was indeed still blocked then below the first pitch, but there's a bit to explore down there. It looks like you could dig it quite easily, with some shoring, if the on-going passage is where I presumed it to be.