Aveline's Hole gate cut

[royfellows]

18 posts and no condemnation about this criminal damage among them.

Guilt by default? Like we see in world politics.
If not actually condemning something one must then support it.

No, no.

 

[NewStuff]

18 posts and no condemnation about this criminal damage among them.

Might want to pick your dummy up off the floor. I suspect that Mullan and Wilson will have such an excess of righteous indignation at "their" gate being cut, that they could cover the lack of condemnation in this thread, so all is right with the world.

 

[mikem]

http://www.ubss.org.uk/articles/avelines.php

Mike

 

[MendipCaveGirl]

The entire length of Aveline's Hole was open for decades before this was found  http://www.ubss.org.uk/articles/avelines.php
Following this discovery an expensive and ugly gate was installed across this fine phreatic cave passage.  My prediction at the time was that this gate would inevitably attract vandalism by would-be explorers wrongly assuming there was something worth seeing on the other side.  This has proved to be true.  My longer term prediction is that 20 years from now the current enthusiasm to repair the gate will have evaporated and it will be left, corroding slowly, bars prised apart, just another example of unsightly cave junk serving no purpose whatsoever.

Yay .... but I'd quite like to see it now!

 

[ZombieCake]

MendipCaveGirl,
There isn't really that much to see beyond the gate.  However the whole area is a magnificent dig site in my opinion.  There's plenty potential in Aveline's.  Plumley's Hole is next door (flat bit against rock face at back of car park), and in line with Rock of Ages (not the Tom Cruise Version, the boring one).  Pierre's Pot runs through the whole area and well worth a look.  There's a lot more there to be found.  Chances of the Illuminati allowing digs are minimal though.

 

[Disgusted from Cornwall.]

I blame Brexit.

It wasn't the CBC.

 

[rhychydwr1]

Is the secret chamber still open, or do I have to ask for a key?

 

[BradW]

Chances of the Illuminati allowing digs are minimal though.

Is that Historic England? I've always thought they did quite a good job looking after stuff.