Sunday 18th December 2022

John Cooper, Mike Kousiounis and Andrew Thompson. Took in sand, cement, mixing tub, dexion and drill (not used). Whilst Mike sorted out his skeleton dexion frame in the bottom pit Andy sent up buckets of spoil for John to stack. Once Mike was ready a mix of cement was done which Mike used to hold the frame in place. Lots more cementing will be required before any progress can be made. 2½ hours. John.

From logbook : A trip down to the dig to do a cementing and scaffolding session. We each lugged a tackle sack to the dig face and Mike assembled the angle iron whilst John and I hauled some of the catch out from the right hand wall on the approach to the face. A short cementing session at the end. Lots more cement needed. 1/3 of cement left in drum. 2 1/2 hours. Andy T.

Saturday 10th December 2022

 Mike Kushy and Courtenay James. 

Started at 11, carried on digging down in the muddy pit at the bottom. Revealed more voids between boulders. Even managed some plug and feathering to remove some decent sized limestone. In one hole a possible solid wall with flowstone and stal' can be seen. Very cold draught coming from all voids and the theory is that it's all just one big space filled with boulder. I think the next way on is down still. Some scaff bars and cement work will be needed before any more progress down though. 5 hours. Mike.

https://youtu.be/R18-xFClXts

Thursday 8th December 2022

 Mike Kushy, solo trip. Carrying on from where Mike Waterworth and I left off yesterday. Carried on down through the floor, some decent holes appearing and the draught is getting stronger, Saturday should be interesting. 5 hours. MK

https://youtu.be/zVyv8Xh5qAQ

Wednesday 7th December 2022

Mike Kushy and Mike Waterworth. More work on the muddy dig, started to go down in the floor and was finding fist sized lumps of limestone instead of the usual sand and mud. Found a draught at the end heading in the same direction as the passage above. 2 1/2 hours. Mike K.

Tuesday 29th November 2022

JC in the bedding below the Boulder Rift.

 

At the bottom of the 2m pot looking through the narrow gap between big boulders.

Looking past what seems to be a tiny funnel in the floor behind the triangular rock to the passage on the left. There may be a continuation on the right as well

 

Looking up out of the muddy bottom dig

JC log. John Cooper and Mike Wise. We first inspected the new lower bedding chamber off the start of Boulder Rift. Probably needs the way in opening up and stabilising but the bottom looks interesting. Then on in and moved a few buckets of spoil from Kushy’s dig face at the bottom. Came out to find yet another gate had been installed by Tuska and Al. 2½ hours.

MW comments - there are two squeezes through boulders to pass below the Boulder Rift to get to the restricted bedding and below that, at the bottom of a 2m deep x 0.75m (ish) diameter pot, a small (maybe 0.5m x 0.5m at most) damp passage with a too tight gap between two very large blocks which prevent entry. Floor is packed mud and stone which is diggable. Immediately behind the triangular rock on the floor in the 4th photo is what seemed to be a small scalloped muddy funnel in the floor but was not fully visible. The item on the floor in photo 3 is my glasses case. 

It's all quite small, probably smaller than I think it is, but interesting! 😀