bograt
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braveduck said:Try contacting Mike Bottomley of CPC I believe he is an expert at seismic surveys .
He may be able to help.
Is he on this forum??
braveduck said:Try contacting Mike Bottomley of CPC I believe he is an expert at seismic surveys .
He may be able to help.
braveduck said:I don't think so .
bograt said:anyone here know if I can contact Mike Bottomley on line?
Mark Wright said:Bograt,
When we were digging at the bottom of Thistle Pot in the 80's I remember John Beck suggesting we were only a few metres away from that 'Barrier'. Maybe Doug has a geological cross section? A large block fell down the second section of the shaft and jammed itself and I think people lost interest after that.
I remember timing the shots with the start of the moto-cross races so they couldn't be heard. The extended trailer in the TSG hut was made so that 2 people could easily carry the generator across the field to the entrance. You wouldn't need any of that these days.
There were still plenty of easier pickings to be had in Peak Cavern at that time. The entrance has one of those steel baskets full of rocks on the top of it. With modern digging equipment and a few able hands I'm sure this site could easily be extended. Thats assuming, of course, we could get access to it.
Mark
alastairgott said:Aha! Mark i know what you've done now, you've taken an old map and overlayed it on a satalite image.
Is the map of the shaft marked in the north of this old map? (The quality is really bad i'm afraid )
http://www.tsgcaving.co.uk/gallery/category/6-old-maps
Mark said:
I remember in 1972 South Yorkshire Caving Club were exploring a shaft they called Eldon Pearl Mine (yellow x) or somewhere very close.
Apparently went into natural, with nice formations ?. I never went down, but sat at the top waiting for them to come out.
I think it was Pete Lord, Tony Buckley, Wren (Dave Shaw) & John Parker ,i f any one has contact details (I know Tony is no longer with us) they might be able to shed some light on it.