Mendip Caves and their Risings

[Tree Monkey]

It will all come out some where on this forum!!

 

[truescrumpy]

Rumur has it that Tyning's Barrow's Swallet rises in gough's, I bet it hasn't been stream tested.
If people say it has, i wouldn't mind betting they meant Tyning's Stream which drains into the origonal entrance to G.B. Cavern

WTF is 'e on about now?  : : :

Even i got confused as well !

 

[cap n chris]

If you don't agree with me, that is fine, but if you admit to knowing nothing about a subject then it is pointless trying to debate it. You need to support arguments with facts.

You can prove anything with facts.

 

[whitelackington]

Due to the fact that the Cornish miners worked within the Carboniferous Limestone (and the Dolomitic Conglomerate) the effect of their shafts would have only had a very local effect.

I seem to recall being told that Cornish Miners worked in The Lost Cave of Loxton
and other places.
Mind you, apparently they did not earn much money so went back to Cornwall

 

[cap n chris]

I seem to recall being told that Cornish Miners worked in The Lost Cave of Loxton

Did they wear corduroy trousers and hang around with religious crackpots, then?

 

[whitelackington]

Rumur has it that Tyning's Barrow's Swallet rises in gough's, I bet it hasn't been stream tested.
If people say it has, i wouldn't mind betting they meant Tyning's Stream which drains into the origonal entrance to G.B. Cavern

WTF is 'e on about now?  : : :

Even i got confused as well !

Well,
There are quite a few possible confusions over the name Tynings
There is the farm where David Reakes and family live.
There is Tyning's Field Dig, also known as Palmer's Cave
(flooded hole with decompsing cat when I last looked)
There is the main cave Tyning's Barrows Swallet

Tyning's as on land belonging to Tyning's farm,
Barrows as in prehistoric barrows in same field
Swallet as in it occasionly takes large quantities of flood water,
twice for me I have found the cave after the entrance pitches impassable with ragging flood water.

Tyning's Gate Ochre Caves,,,,, I have never located them buggers

Tyning's Farm Swallet also known as Tyning's Stream Swallet.
It would probably be more accurate to refer to it using Stream
but I suspect Tyning's Farm Swallet was its origonal name as this was before any of the caves there were known

Let us call it Tyning's Stream Cave

This is an occasional stream that flows into the origonal entrance to G.B. Cavern


I suspect that when people have said Tyning's has been tested,
that they mean this stream


I suspect that the stream in the main cave,
Tyning's Barrows Swallet has not been stream tested.
I await correction

 

[axbridgecaver]

Tyning's Gate Ochre Caves,,,,, I have never located them buggers

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I beleive that these Ochre Caves were "lost" when the Stock Car track was built.

 

[graham]

I await correction

OK.

This is an occasional stream that flows into the origonal entrance to G.B. Cavern

The current entrance to G.B. is the original entrance to G.B. There has been a temporary entrance in Doline III but I doubt a stream has flowed through there for many a long millenium.

 

[tony from suffolk]

Tyning's Gate Ochre Caves,,,,, I have never located them buggers

I beleive that these Ochre Caves were "lost" when the Stock Car track was built.
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Are you perhaps referring to The Tyning's Gate Lost Ochre caves?

 

[whitelackington]

Where does all the water swallowed by Thrupe lane Swallet exit?

 

[cap n chris]

Glastonbury Tor

 

[whitelackington]

:tease:
I know when I am being spoofed :alien:

 

[Peter Burgess]

Are you sure? 

 

[whitelackington]

I seem to recall being told that Cornish Miners worked in The Lost Cave of Loxton

Did they wear corduroy trousers and hang around with religious crackpots, then?

Did they cause carbon dioxide levels to go up,

bloody foriegners, coming up here from Cornwall, wiv their foriegn ways. :tease:

 

[cap n chris]

bloody foriegners, coming up here from Cornwall, wiv their foriegn ways.

Remind me; where do you live?

 

[Peter Burgess]

Seriously, I'd be quite interested to know where the Thrupe Lane Swallet water goes. I googled about for a bit, but came up with nothing, unfortunately. There's probably an obvious place, but I don't know the area well. There's a good write up of the history of the dig etc at

http://www.thrupelite.arcula.co.uk/ithrupe.htm

 

[cap n chris]

Most likely at Croscombe, spec. Isn't there a gurt natural spring by the roadside down Dinder way?

 

[Andy Sparrow]

Saint Andrew's Well
(major resurgence in the grounds of Wells Cathedral)

 

[graham]

Saint Andrew's Well
(major resurgence in the grounds of Wells Cathedral)

And I am sure that this fact appears in the standard guide pamphlet to Mendip which, yet again, nobody bothers to pull off their shelf before asking obvious questions.

 

[Peter Burgess]

Saint Andrew's Well
(major resurgence in the grounds of Wells Cathedral)

And I am sure that this fact appears in the standard guide pamphlet to Mendip which, yet again, nobody bothers to pull off their shelf before asking obvious questions.

Glad to hear it. It wasn't to hand when the question was posed. That's why I googled, in case I could be of assistance. (Actually the real reasons I googled was (a) to appear as a  , and (b) to make a snidey comment that it was very easy to get the answer by googling rather than pose a simple question for someone else to look up,

but as it turned out I couldn't do either!)

I'll remember to keep my pamphlet on me at all times in case there are any further questions.