Spencer?s Level (Via Gellia) CROMFORD

[CJ]

I had a quick mooch in there yesterday, I didn't take any photos unfortunately as I just saw this thread today. The bones are still there (skull is absent unfortunately). I can safely say that it's nothing human. The bones are incredibly clean and they must have been there for a while as there's no ground discolouration from any soft tissue decomposition. No smell/odour at any point although it was a fresh day yesterday and my nose was frozen. Maybe someone took a bucket of KFC in there?

 

[Cantclimbtom]

Isn't there a caving documentary about finding bones? Showing an all female team of caving experts who work out the cause of the bone piles? Think it was filmed in the major cave system of Hertfordshire.

 

[tomferry]

Isn't there a caving documentary about finding bones? Showing an all female team of caving experts who work out the cause of the bone piles? Think it was filmed in the major cave system of Hertfordshire.

Now your starting to explore in wales you will certainly start finding lots of bones they will be stinking sheep !

 

[RobinGriffiths]

Maybe someone took a bucket of KFC in there?

Probably Bear Grylls having some lunch away from the cameras.

 

[Mrs Trellis]

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Probably Bear Grylls having some lunch away from the cameras.
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Won't that be in a swanky hotel?

Back on topic they look like sheep bones.

 

[pwhole]

We once found a sheep's skull in a mine, lying alongside a railed cartgate, about 30m from a climbing shaft up to it, and the entrance of the climbing shaft was only accessible from a landing on the engine shaft, and that was 50m underground. We never found the rest of the sheep skeleton, but we did find what appeared to be a fox (or dog) skeleton near the bottom of the mine at about 120m deep, but at the base of a series of interlinked climbing shafts. So maybe there was a 'battle royale' once upon a time, and they both lost. Or a miner had a taste for sheep heads for lunch.

 

[Cantclimbtom]

When at some point I return to where I was on Friday I'll take an alternative route between 23 and 33ftm (rather than the "trade route" I took) and go looking for the horse! There... that's one upmanship on sheep carcasses.

 

[Brains]

There is a sheep skull in Hillocks that came out of the fill in the Whalf climbing shaft when it was dug out, together with several other bones and some rusty pitchfork heads.
Pretoria at Bakewell has a cow skull (jaw, etc) but that is near the base of a filled in shaft.

 

[Tripod]

I found a complete Badger skeleton when involved in gating a Black Marble mine some years ago. Laid out perfectly symmetrically as though the Badger had found a quiet, peaceful dark place and just passed away. Finding the odd Owl skull has been interesting.

 

[T pot 2]

In raddle pits mine in the level above the spiral staircase there used to be a full sheep skeleton laid out perfectly,  the level was 160ft below surface