alastairgott
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What did you make of the Phreatic down there? Nice?
pwhole said:Thanks for checking. I have a feeling that I've read Trevor Ford confirming that the way on in this sump was run-in - it has a hand-picked forefield at the far end? About 5m long to the back wall? It seems as though he knew about this phreatic tube we were discussing, as it's vaguely mentioned in Limestones and Caves of the Peak District, in 1977. He also mentions Crimbo Swallow being 15m above Lathkill Head Resurgence in there...so none of this is new, but may be more significant now more cave (and thus better models) has been found.
alastairgott said:Thanks Shotlighter, I had no Idea that Whalf climbing shaft was opened before the Engine Shaft, and all in the last 20 years!
Things always seem to come in two's! 2 for 1 on entrances.
Hi Dan, That sounds like the one Matt Ryan was digging in the'90s - he had a pulley set in the ceiling to help with dragging the kibbles out. My midweek bunch (Lofty, Keith Joule, Howard Taylor, John Martin and myself) took it over at a later date and worked on it for a winter - it was very cold and very wet! The coffin level ended in a boulder pile which was either a run-in shaft or a stope (a lot of the rocks we pulled out had a high proportion of galena) and we played a dodgy game of jenga below it, but never got through before we finally moved on to other things.danthecavingman said:There is an interesting lead in Hillocks if you go down Whalf Climbing shafts and turn left at the bottom. Before you get to the very end there's a short coffin level on the right that ends in a rift / stope that's choked from above - might go somewhere interesting?
Anyone else recognise this from my vague description?
Dan.
alastairgott said:"Or perhaps I am confusing it with the flooded shaft in Knotlow's Waterfall Chamber." Chocolate fireguard
I'm almost sure this was pumped, the extension of the flooded shaft in Knotlow is called the Pump series on the Westlake (and Whitehouse) survey.
http://thedca.org.uk/publications/surveys-test-only
http://thedca.org.uk/publications/surveys-test-only/file/92-knotlow-hillocks