Dead Sheep in Jingling pot

[Getwet]

I was up at a rather busy West Kingsdale today.

I was informed by a group that had been down today that there is a dead sheep in jingling pot that is at a particularly "high" state of decomposure. :thumbsdown:

Anyone thinking of doing this trip may be best to wait a few weeks to allow nature to take its course

 

[dunc]

I was up at a rather busy West Kingsdale today.

Disgraceful isn't it, was in Kingsdale couple week ago and it was very busy also.. Where have all these people suddenly appeared from??

I was informed by a group that had been down today that there is a dead sheep in jingling pot that is at a particularly "high" state of decomposure

 it all adds to the enjoyment, allegedly.

 

[dl]

We were there a couple of months ago and some of the maggot population had already climbed half way up the main shaft ..... just by the P-hanger.

 

[paulf]

Why isn't there fences around these Holes ?
Or are the Sheep supposed to be in the other area's ?
Bull Pot used to have the corrugated Metal over the Top, this now resides at the bottom of the Entrance Pitch with some Sheep Bones.
Cheers Paul

 

[Ship-badger]

Why isn't there fences around these Holes ?
Or are the Sheep supposed to be in the other area's ?
Bull Pot used to have the corrugated Metal over the Top, this now resides at the bottom of the Entrance Pitch with some Sheep Bones.
Cheers Paul

 

[cap n chris]

Surely fences are a southern invention, designed to make people wearing baseballs caps learn how to crash cars into them?

 

[Dave H]

Jingling has a relatively small problem - Bull Pot is the real sheep magnet.

The constant fetid sheep there makes it difficult to use the normal trip recollection method :-

"Oh, when P6 [Perryfoot] had the sheep blown up larger than a football just inside the entrance?" or
"The summer when there was the rabbit in the first low bit of Swildons ..."

 

[paul]

Jingling has a relatively small problem - Bull Pot is the real sheep magnet.

The constant fetid sheep there makes it difficult to use the normal trip recollection method :-

"Oh, when P6 [Perryfoot] had the sheep blown up larger than a football just inside the entrance?" or
"The summer when there was the rabbit in the first low bit of Swildons ..."

My memory of Coolagh River cave (County Clare) "the time I crawled through the rotting sheep carcass...". Yuck.

Last time I was in Bull Pot a few months ago there was a live shrew wandering about near the corrugated sheet at the foot of the entrance pitch.

 

[potholer]

We were there a couple of months ago and some of the maggot population had already climbed half way up the main shaft ..... just by the P-hanger.

I was there in ~July and there were plenty of maggots around on the walls, but the leading carcass then was near the bottom of the direct hang (south-ish end of the shaft).
The current carcass is rather more recent and is pretty much right at the bottom of the final hang of the swing-off-into-the-rift side route. There is a small thread 2/3 of the way down that allows a deviation to avoid the sheep and merely land on one of the maggot-covered boulders nearby.

 

[whitelackington]

Your Yorkshire potholes sound real classy

 

[potholer]

Jingling seems to be one of the few shafts that regularly attract woolies.

In any case, there are only a handful of UK potholes anywhere other than Yorkshire.

 

[barrabus]

there were plenty of maggots around on the walls

Sounds like a trip I did down Pillar Holes a couple of months ago.... :yucky:

 

[Steve Robinson]

Last year there was a sheep half way through the sump in White Lady Cave, Ystradfellte just where I needed to belay the line - nice! :yucky:

Refrained from Snoopying to its leg and used a convenient boulder instead.

 

[dl]

Many years ago I distinctly remember one of the line belays in one of the downstream sumps of New Goyden being the leg of an unfortunate sheep.

 

[ditzy 24//7]

a wile ago coming back from mouldridge mine jd nearly stepped in a sheep carcus.  :yucky: