Evidence for potential?
?A mile west, and midway between Litton and Arncliffe, and on the southern side of the Skirfare, is Gildersber Cave. There are various reports about the length of this cave, in fact, story says no person ever yet reached the end of it. A man once entered at eight o?clock in the morning and crept on for three miles, and then grew fainthearted and returned, arriving at the entrance by twelve o?clock, noon. Other adventurers, on discovery bent, have crawled so far as to hear the farmer at Darnbrook Farm, by Fountains Fell, calling home his cows at milking time.?
Ref. Edmund Bogg; Higher Wharfedale (1904). Facsimile reprint, 1989, Old Hall Press.
Let me anticipate some of the possible comments.
1. It?s just hearsay from a romantic writer.
2. Scoska is Gildersbank Cave (NC vol 1).
3. To crawl 6 miles in 4 hours is pretty good going.
4. The last bit sounds more like Robinsons Pot.
I know but there are other reasons to believe that Scoska and / or Bown Scar may have potential to be extended. :-\