Meanwhile near Lincoln

[mikem]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1587947596106047488

 

[ChrisJC]

Sounds like he needs a crack team of mine explorers to go and have a look!

Chris.

 

[Andy Farrant]

Do we know where (other than near Lincoln)?

 

[Pitlamp]

This looks like one for the Lincoln Scouts caving Club to get their teeth into . . .

 

[Ciaran T-H]

Good spot... I've not seen anything reported locally. I'll share with our members, highly likely that some will be interested/know where this could be. There is a shallow bed of limestone around Lincoln with a couple of very dodgy mines which were supposedly worked at recently as the 1930's.

We have a brief report here https://www.lincscaving.co.uk/trip-reports/2020 (scroll down to Greetwell Mines).

Ciaran

 

[traff]

Do we know where (other than near Lincoln)?

As it was posted by Aubourn Farming I guess somewhere near Aubourn. It also states it was a beet field, a good chance it would be sugar beet as the sugar factory is only 9 miles away. I work for British Sugar so I'll ask the Ag dept if they have any info.

 

[tomferry]

If they want a team I will definitely come

 

[mikem]

They are a contractor, so doesn't help with location, but there are a couple of useful replies:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1588093816602599424

 

[mikem]

& if you want to know more about the local rocks:

https://lincsnaturalist.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/the-geology-of-lincolnshire-h-h-swinnerton-and-p-e-kent.pdf

Further documents in this discussion:

Lincolnshire Limestone

Does anyone know of any caves in the Lincolnshire limestone? Having looked at the BGS 50k data there is a broken band of limestone all the way from Scunthorpe to Stamford. Yet I can't find any reference to any caves in that area the closest is around Worksop but that is in a separate band to...

ukcaving.com

 

[traff]

Apparently Aubourn Farming farm above Navenby around the A15 and have quite a few to the east of Waddington.