Grid ref for Hollandtwine shaft

[Mark Wright]

Diggers always say they can see open passage through chokes    "...just another couple of metres, I can see it ahead...."

A month later you find it is open for 50cm and is 10cm high.

But sometimes........., e.g. the +/- 500m, mostly very high, Rowter Hole extensions.

Mind you, we always reckoned we could see something through the choke at the end of our original Rowter dig. It took us over 2 years to realise we were wrong!!

Mark

 

[pwhole]

Does anyone know if Paul Deakin's archives are accessible? I'd have thought there was a good chance of there being some pictures in his collection.

I forgot that I had the index to Paul Deakin's collection, so I can confirm (sadly) that there are no Hollandtwine photos listed

 

[T pot 2]

Pwhole
The only person I saw with a camera in Hollandtwine was P Thompson of the pegasus caving club.
Jarred wasn't the only person to record trips into the mine the pegasus trip journals would have quite a few write ups too.

 

[Pitlamp]

The Pegasus Caving Club has a really good website, maintained by Cheg Chester. You may find something useful on there, maybe?

 

[Pitlamp]

What year did it disappear? It was not there by 92 as Moose and I tried to find it. Went down Hazard instead.

I suppose it's possible that the shaft was buried in 1992 and then uncovered again by mid 1993.

I think you're right Nick - it came and went a few times. Not long after I took the photo mentioned earlier, when the shaft was clearly on the point of being lost, I went for another look and it was definitely "landscaped". That would have been within months of the photo being taken. But I also have a vague memory of it becoming exposed again a number of years later, when Nick Butcher was working up there quite a lot. The large boulder that someone mentioned above also rings bells.  It may be that Nick B would have co-ordinates.

 

[Moose]

Grid ref :        413984 381261 427

 

[T pot 2]

Thanks Moose
Getting close to the one I have.

 

[mikem]

JRat's diary does include a sketch survey of their discoveries in Oct 1971 (& various descriptions during that year & 1972)
https://www.mcra.org.uk/logbooks/index.php?/category/14/start-120#&ui-state=dialog