Rob
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Latest Eldon trip report, plus a short video of the freedive between Race Against Time and the Master Cave:
Linen Dale cave is open but choked. We sent a dowser down the dale and he got very strong signals - if you believe in
The biggest change will have been when Glebe Mine broke into the natural drainage at the Boil Up, diverting much of the water that would have flowed out of the resurgence, into the sough. What effect the driving of the soughs had on autogenic (percolation) water levels I'm not sure. Perhaps there were springs or resurgences in the Dale now unknown that used to flow?Re morphology discussion in the latest trip reports - I imagine the successive soughs to drain the area's mines culminating in the Moorwood sough will have dewatered the natural drainage system or at last altered its previous course or perhaps both .There is something of a parallel in North Wales where the same kind of activity unwatered the caves of the Alyn Valley and caused the Holy Well to stop flowing. Did the Carlswark resurgence flow more before the soughs were driven?
••• Discussing (Crosslow Sough) with Mr W.Robinson, he agrees that Crosslow Rake Sough may have drained the vein into Waterfall Swallet, but he expressed himself as more inclined to the view that Crosslow Rake Sough was probably a drainage level from Dusty Pit, running into the swallow which is 300 ft. N.W. of Hungerhill Farm. Old lead miners, testing the water with chaff, state that the water from Waterfall Swallet passes into Dusty Pit Mine, and from there along the line of Hungerhill Swallow to the next one 900 ft. S.E. and that this water comes into Carlswark Cavern.
Mr (W) Robinson says that the Pippin Swallow is the Hungerhill Fann swallow.
This feels pretty unlikely. Not sure on elevations, but Waterfall Swallet is pretty deep...... Old lead miners, testing the water with chaff, state that the water from Waterfall Swallet passes into Dusty Pit Mine ...
Linen Dale cave is open but choked. We sent a dowser down the dale and he got very strong signals - if you believe in dowsing.
Yes JSB and Mark Noble were digging at the top end of Stoney Dale on the right. Ended in big one boulders from what I remember but i'm sure Mark will be able to clarify.Not sure I believe in dowsing, but didn't JSB start a dig in Linen Dale somewhere? He was digging at the top of the dale close to the top of SMD IIRC
The origin of the need for a Derbyshire key?Lovely crinoids. They look like bolts!
Nudge, nudge! Any news?After a 2 month long dye testing marathon (results to follow soon....) the team fancied a change of scene and have been working on a short project in Bagshawe. Trip reports will be uploaded soon.
Nudge, nudge! Any news?