Skullcap Cave
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Location
Grid Reference: SX 867 787
Altitude: 60m
This lies at the edge of Palace Quarry in Chudleigh and is at the same level as Tramp's Hole which is further along the cliff going downstream.
Access
Description
I've put most of the existing text under history, as it appears to be an account of the discovery of an extension. This could do with being seperated into historical and description sections. --RobinGriffiths 11:14, 4 January 2007 (GMT)
History
The entrance was located in 1985 by Brian Johnson and excavation commenced by a group of cavers mainly from DSS including Chris Proctor, Peter Glanvill and Pete Rose. It became clear that we were excavating an abandoned stream cave with phreatic sections. After 4 years of digging a breakthrough into open cave was achieved. The extension known as Size Means Nothing was 20 metres long taking the cave to a length of something like 60 metres. Although gated the gate was removed by persons unknown. The extension contains archaeologically significant bone deposits (small mammals) and there are areas of undisturbed sediment along the sides of the main passage. The extension is quite well decorated and ends in a boulder choke which has not been excavated due to lack of spoil space. Photos can be seen on a DSS website (not the official one). There remains potential for further excavation nearer the entrance and there may well be a lower series as yet unentered. A survey and photos were published in Descent magazine.
