markpot said:
I have....quite a few times(abbed off the anchor in question).i know where mad is coming from and have asked the same question myself. Single ab points,trees ect are regularly accepted as bomber as descents from climbs.i cant think of another in the peak that uses a strop like this.most are bolts or rope/tat/tape.Derbyshire dales are firmly against any form of bolts placed at the location.i had discussions with the ranger a few years back and was met with a frosty reception.
There are quite a few similar anchors around in places like Cheddar (I think) and Tremadog. Lyon Outdoor stainless wire strops are swaged with copper.
While it might appear to be a 'BMC installed anchor', the BMC takes a very different line on responsibility for anchors in general in climbing (in that they don't take any). Obviously they are careful on the few sites they do own, but the vast vast vast vast majority of climbing anchors (including resin anchors) are placed by individual climbers. Even those that the BMC may have funded will not generally be installed by them, but by individual climbers, and the BMC will not take responsibility.
The BMC very clearly place responsibility for using any fixed aid of any time on the individual user. They have a 'bolting handbook' but it is guidance only, and while they obviously recommend against certain anchors and encourage good practice they do not pretend to, or even try to, control bolting activities in the UK. They would I think see this as anathema to the strong culture of consensus and individual responsibility in mountaineering and climbing. Personally I am always surprised that BCA institutions seem to want to take responsibility that they don't need to, but hey ho...
There are probably as many resin anchors on the Isle of Portland alone than in every cave in the UK I suspect (if not more). Caving is a tiny niche for anchors.