No recent digs in Churn Milk.The logistics would be tremendus.
You would have to find one solid wall, then shaft sink for at least 100ft though boulders.
This is on a major fault.
If you cross the wall along the footpath to Phenyghent,so you are on the Ribblesdale side of the ridge,
you will find a shakehole just as big as Churn Milk with no name(Google Earth it).
This MAY be a slightly better bet for a twenty year dig, same fault,this has never been dug to my knowlege.
Better still Larch Tree Hole dug both by CPC and BPC has a draft same fault.Job never finished.
Much easier digging ,lovely Slikensides, fault narrower here so digging possable.
These three holes all line up and also line up with Sulber Nick on the other side of Ribblesdale.
Going the other way towards Fountains Fell allowing for a slight bend in the fault I recon the massive shakehole that was Coat's Cavern
is also on the same fault.This is undoughtedly the conduit that carries the Fountains Fell water to Brants Gill and Douk Gill in Ribblesdale.
Look in vain for the fault on the Geological Map of Phenyghent.Once talked to the two Geologists who had just remapped this area,and told them about the Slikensides in Larch Tree Hole and that they had missed a vey big fault off their map.They were less than pleased!
A real case of professonals and amatuers not mixing.