High Cave

Location
Grid Reference SK 532 992

Length: 30m

Altitude: 60m

Description
Lost to tipping and landscaped by 2011. Possibility of re-opening needs investigating.

See also Badger Cave and Connection Cave, lost to same tipping/landscaping.

The entrance is high up on the south side of railway cutting 400 m east of the bridge on the A630 Doncaster to Sheffield Road.

Roomy entrance with large slab led to chamber with low choked chamber off to the Right. Ahead is a further chamber with various digs and small aven and crawl to flowstone choke at far side. Left is the excessively low bedding plane link with Connection Cave. About 3 m east of main entrance is tight entrance and tortuous passage linking with first chamber in main cave.

Access
Blocked.

References and Further Reading
The 1997 RIGS Survey included an assessment of cave systems along the Don Gorge by Tony Gibbs of the Derbyshire Caving Association.