Claires Cave

Location
Altitude: TBC Grid Reference: SK 17300 78900 TBC

Access
No official access at the time of writing. Contact the EPC for details

Description
Small Active swallet. A short waterfall pitch (4m)lands you at the bottom of a rather unstable pot with some rather nice coral formations in a band around the south east edge. Following the water through a low bedding crawl, enters a reasonably proportioned rift. A bridging climb up to the back of the rift reveals a window in the left wall into a parallel pot which is dry and muddy with fine examples of fossils. This leads down to a boulder and mud choked floor. Back in the rift, the water is followed to a rather damp climb down and crawl back under ones self. Further damp & sporting climbs heading down the rift lead to an eventual a narrowing and boulder blockage in the rift. Currently being dug by the Eldon Pothole Club. (Jan 2007).

WARNING : the stream is very active and the climbs would be come extremely testing and dangerous if caught out by a flood. There is currently nowhere to get away from the water, so be warned.

History
Discovered during the creation of the foundations of the near by stone cutting sheds. (c200?)

Dug by EPC (T-pot) and TSG - M. Noble/J. Beck.