Cawdor hidden scar
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rob87
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Roped around a cupple of trees and off the one in the middle 
not great did find that on right it slopes down have to be careful the picture that you seen there's another below that that is where the draft is cold and constant there was more below will add the picture later but got rope rub up near the tree so decided not to risk it and you don't realise that its a hanging death rock till your under it going to add some more I have a really good photos but don't want to crop them I've just took them on my phone I have a strange thing for finding things
not great did find that on right it slopes down have to be careful the picture that you seen there's another below that that is where the draft is cold and constant there was more below will add the picture later but got rope rub up near the tree so decided not to risk it and you don't realise that its a hanging death rock till your under it going to add some more I have a really good photos but don't want to crop them I've just took them on my phone I have a strange thing for finding things 
Speleokitty1
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This photo of the entrance may help - it's next to some concrete as you can see.
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Thanks. I was obviously too far down the bank when I was looking.
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This photo of the entrance may help - it's next to some concrete as you can see.
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Thanks. I was obviously too far down the bank when I was looking.
Speleokitty1
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Is it running parallel to the quarry face or perpendicular to it?
History Trog
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The photo of the riverside level is in fact of the Cawdor Shaft pumpway. If only it could have been followed up to the engine shaft, it would have been most interesting to discover its exact location and present state, which is a mystery despite the proximity of the new road for the Cawdor Quarry development scheme and the Sainsbury Supermarket. However, the precarious hanging stone obviously discourages reasonable exploration.
I use the local library for internet access, which makes my responses so slow as to be pretty well useless. Anyway, below are some extracts from my forthcoming (?) book:
Cawdor Level tail had been destroyed by 1978 ?but a very powerful flow of water issues into the Derwent in wet weather? at 30 litres per second (Oakman, Colin, 1979. The Sough Hydrology of the Wirksworth-Matlock-Youlgreave area. M. Phil. thesis. Leicester University).
Slightly west of Cawdor Level tail is a dry sough-like passage, apparently a nineteenth-century pumpway from Cawdor Shaft. A partial blockage about 20 feet in prevents progress but the level continues beyond. (Willies, Lynn, 2005. Cawdor Sough, Matlock ? A Failed Exploration Attempt. P.D.M.H.S. Newsletter No 115 pp5-6.) It has a flat slabbed roof, and it opens up to four feet high after a short distance.
I use the local library for internet access, which makes my responses so slow as to be pretty well useless. Anyway, below are some extracts from my forthcoming (?) book:
Cawdor Level tail had been destroyed by 1978 ?but a very powerful flow of water issues into the Derwent in wet weather? at 30 litres per second (Oakman, Colin, 1979. The Sough Hydrology of the Wirksworth-Matlock-Youlgreave area. M. Phil. thesis. Leicester University).
Slightly west of Cawdor Level tail is a dry sough-like passage, apparently a nineteenth-century pumpway from Cawdor Shaft. A partial blockage about 20 feet in prevents progress but the level continues beyond. (Willies, Lynn, 2005. Cawdor Sough, Matlock ? A Failed Exploration Attempt. P.D.M.H.S. Newsletter No 115 pp5-6.) It has a flat slabbed roof, and it opens up to four feet high after a short distance.
Speleokitty1
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Most of the veins on this side of Masson Hill tend to be on the dip with fewer on the strike. One side of the sides definitely appears to have solutional features that scream natural to me. When I asked about the orientation I was thinking it was a slip crack relating to the quarry face but I don't think this is the case now.
My late father used to run the Derbyshire Stone lab within the quarry (and later the Tarmac lab at John Hadfield House) and I remember him telling me about ancient human remains found in a rift at the top of the quarry. I think some of these remains were in Buxton Museum? I'm starting to wonder if this is a possible location if it hasn't been quarried away.
Regards
Julie
My late father used to run the Derbyshire Stone lab within the quarry (and later the Tarmac lab at John Hadfield House) and I remember him telling me about ancient human remains found in a rift at the top of the quarry. I think some of these remains were in Buxton Museum? I'm starting to wonder if this is a possible location if it hasn't been quarried away.
Regards
Julie
