Unidentified Chapel-le-Dale Survey

[Cave Mapper]

I'm looking a a huge (14 feet) survey from the RRCPC library that covers the area from Tatham Wife to Roaring Hole. Unfortunately, there is no indication of who produced it, or when.

Initially I assumed it was the one mentioned in 'ULSA Explorations Journal II':

".. a Chapel-le-Dale bench survey which mapped all the known caves from Bargh's Cave to Black Shiver Pot on a single (unpublished) sheet drawn at a scale of 50ft to the inch."

But it covers a different, albeit overlapping, area and it's not drawn in ULSA's usual style. There's no marked scale, but it does have grid squares and the scale is about 50ft to the inch.

Does anyone know the origin of this work?

 

[Pitlamp]

Having pondered on this I suspect that it is in fact the ULSA one. ULSA never published it properly (which might explain the variance from normal style you mentioned) so the one you looked at is probably a "preliminary drawing". I've seen this drawing many years ago but can't remember where.

Can any 1970s (or even 1960s) ULSA members help?

 

[s_allshorn]

Dave Brook has identified it as an ULSA work and as Pitlamp say it's a preliminary drawing and was not intended for publication in its current state.

 

[MSD]

I remember looking at this very survey when Dave Brock was diving in Roaring Hole. We plotted the new passage up on a copy of it and it was only then that it became clear that a connection to Meregill Hole was imminent.

Mark