Goatchurch survey
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Peter Burgess
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graham said:
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CaverA
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Hi Graham,
Thanks for the reply. However I've managed to scan and enlarge the Sidcot Survey from Mendip Underground, this will do instead. I've got a deadline approaching and needed to find a survey fast.
Sorry I got you into trouble with Peter, regarding your poor use of grammer
Cheers
Thanks for the reply. However I've managed to scan and enlarge the Sidcot Survey from Mendip Underground, this will do instead. I've got a deadline approaching and needed to find a survey fast.
Sorry I got you into trouble with Peter, regarding your poor use of grammer
Cheers
CaverA
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Thanks Graham,
The Goatchurch survey in that paper is suitable for my needs. So once again I'll change my mind and go with Goatchurch. I'm tasked with carrying out a 'textual' analysis on a map of my choice. I'm getting used to up-setting Bath Spa geographers by concentrating my studies on caves and dropping caving terms into my work.
The Goatchurch survey in that paper is suitable for my needs. So once again I'll change my mind and go with Goatchurch. I'm tasked with carrying out a 'textual' analysis on a map of my choice. I'm getting used to up-setting Bath Spa geographers by concentrating my studies on caves and dropping caving terms into my work.
cap n chris
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CaverA said:
I would be very interested indeed to read your finished article!
CaverA
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I'll be happy to post a copy. But can I ask for polite comments, it will be the first time I have undertake an analysis of this type, after spending the last two years concentrating on physical Geography, I most admit that the human side of the subject has me at a loss. Also bear in mind that this is undergraduate work and so does not need to meet the same standard as peer reviewed work it also accounts for 16.6% of my final overall mark for this module.
I sound like I'm making excuses. :-\ I probably am.
I sound like I'm making excuses. :-\ I probably am.
CaverA
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The article will be reviewed and marked before coming back to me for final changes, so in essence this is a first draft.
Learning Log One - textual analysis
Word Limit: 500 words
Figure 1: GoatChruch Cavern. Source: Bull and Carpenter (1987)
The map that I have chosen to textually analyse is that of Goatchruch Cavern. Goatchurch was a large part of my first experiences underground and as such holds a special place, a complex system for beginners which offers a number of underground obstacles. As can be seem from the included image, a cave survey is a sketch plan detailing passages, chamber names which will be covered later and the type of substrate located within a particular area which aid navigation and location within the system. A set of symbols are used to locate and identify features within the ?map-scape? for instance within the current example there is extensive boulder fields located around the Boulder chamber, a number of these symbols relate very well to the symbol set used within the field of Geomorphology (Cooke & Doornkamp,1974).
Caves are a three dimensional, by viewing a sketch plan we are able to locate a possible route around a system, able to locate our position in relation to a particular feature such as a boulder field, but a survey does not convey how hard the trip is, it does not show the massively sloped bedding in Boulder Chamber, the teeth grinding fear of descending Coal Shute for the first time or the closed in buried alive feeling when entering The Drainpipe, the survey does not count and does not care how many bruises you get, to quote Harley (1989) ?The landscape dissolves into a generic world of bare essentials?? (Harley J.B, (1989) Deconstructing the Map, p176). The bare essentials being the passage plan , it is only when one has an understanding of passage names that we can relies that this can be used as our wayward makers, a telltale of conditions to come. There is no set rule for naming of passages; they are normally named after a feature within that chamber or area.
For instance Entrance Gallery, a grand term which no doubt harks back to the early Victorian attempts at turning Goatchurch into show cave, indeed the metal stud work can still be seen in situ but not on the map. A second point made by Harley (1989) is that the bare essentials invite no exploration (Harley J.B, (1989) Deconstructing the Map, p176). This could not be further from the truth after viewing a survey, a line drawn sketch plan survey, the blood boils, a knot of excitement forms in the stomach, here contained within this survey is the way on, a chance to explore, a throw back to the past, painting pictures of careless lazy summer days where the pressures and demands of life are far away.
Cartographers manufacture power (Harley, 1989, p165); the power of exploration which is passed onto each generation, the power can be seen and felt by looking at these simple lines.
Learning Log One - textual analysis
Word Limit: 500 words
Figure 1: GoatChruch Cavern. Source: Bull and Carpenter (1987)
The map that I have chosen to textually analyse is that of Goatchruch Cavern. Goatchurch was a large part of my first experiences underground and as such holds a special place, a complex system for beginners which offers a number of underground obstacles. As can be seem from the included image, a cave survey is a sketch plan detailing passages, chamber names which will be covered later and the type of substrate located within a particular area which aid navigation and location within the system. A set of symbols are used to locate and identify features within the ?map-scape? for instance within the current example there is extensive boulder fields located around the Boulder chamber, a number of these symbols relate very well to the symbol set used within the field of Geomorphology (Cooke & Doornkamp,1974).
Caves are a three dimensional, by viewing a sketch plan we are able to locate a possible route around a system, able to locate our position in relation to a particular feature such as a boulder field, but a survey does not convey how hard the trip is, it does not show the massively sloped bedding in Boulder Chamber, the teeth grinding fear of descending Coal Shute for the first time or the closed in buried alive feeling when entering The Drainpipe, the survey does not count and does not care how many bruises you get, to quote Harley (1989) ?The landscape dissolves into a generic world of bare essentials?? (Harley J.B, (1989) Deconstructing the Map, p176). The bare essentials being the passage plan , it is only when one has an understanding of passage names that we can relies that this can be used as our wayward makers, a telltale of conditions to come. There is no set rule for naming of passages; they are normally named after a feature within that chamber or area.
For instance Entrance Gallery, a grand term which no doubt harks back to the early Victorian attempts at turning Goatchurch into show cave, indeed the metal stud work can still be seen in situ but not on the map. A second point made by Harley (1989) is that the bare essentials invite no exploration (Harley J.B, (1989) Deconstructing the Map, p176). This could not be further from the truth after viewing a survey, a line drawn sketch plan survey, the blood boils, a knot of excitement forms in the stomach, here contained within this survey is the way on, a chance to explore, a throw back to the past, painting pictures of careless lazy summer days where the pressures and demands of life are far away.
Cartographers manufacture power (Harley, 1989, p165); the power of exploration which is passed onto each generation, the power can be seen and felt by looking at these simple lines.
cap n chris
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Thanks!
busty_caver
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there is a Goatchurch survey on the back of the "logging" toilet in the Belfry! Makes interesting viewing/reading when one suffered from Butcombe Botty brought on by Rogers Butcombe!
