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Upper Pitts 1992-1994 WESSEX CAVE CLUB CAVING LOGBOOK 1992 - 1994 Acq. No. No. Page Date Cave Area Notes Survey Significant 00526 1 1 31/01/1992 Eastwater Cavern Mendip 00526 2 1 29/01/1992 Flower Pot Mendip 00526 3 1 31/01/1992 Hunters' Hole Mendip 00526 4 1 01/02/1992 Swildon's Hole Mendip Round Trip, Four, Lower Fault Chamber 00526 5 0 02/02/1992 Ogof Ffynnon Ddu Wales Two 00526 6 1 01/02/1992 Swildon's Hole Mendip Mud Sump 00526 7 1 01/02/1992 County Pot Yorkshire 00526 8 2 04/02/1992 Wheel Pit Mendip Surface 00526 9 2 04/02/1992 Waldegrave Swallet Mendip Surface 00526 10 2 04/02/1992 Cuckoo Cleeves Mendip 00526 11 2 05/02/1992 Swildon's Hole Mendip Blue Pencil Passage 00526 12 2 05/02/1992 Flower Pot Mendip Dig 00526 13 2 07/02/1992 Welsh's Green Swallet Mendip 00526 14 2 09/02/1992 Longwood Swallet / August Hole Mendip 00526 15 3 12/02/1992 Flower Pot Mendip Dig 00526 16 3 12/02/1992 Eighteen Acre Swallet Mendip Dig 00526 17 3 14/02/1992 Swildon's Hole Mendip Black Hole, Sump II 00526 18 3 15/02/1992 Swildon's Hole Mendip Upper Series photography 00526 19 3 15/02/1992 Swildon's Hole Mendip Short Round Trip 00526 20 3 16/02/1992 G.B. Cave Mendip Bat Passage 00526 21 3 15/02/1992 Swildon's Hole Mendip Pirate Chamber 00526 22 4 20/02/1992 Swildon's Hole Mendip 00526 23 4 15/02/1992 Peak Cavern Derbyshire White River Series 00526 24 5 16/02/1992 Tilly Whim Caves Dorset Survey 00526 25 5 22/02/1992 Swildon's Hole Mendip Four 00526 26 5 21/02/1992 Pinetree Pot Mendip 00526 27 5 22/02/1992 Longwood Swallet / August Hole Mendip 00526 28 5 22/02/1992 Swildon's Hole Mendip 00526 29 5 22/02/1992 Little Neath River Cave Wales 00526 30 6 22/02/1992 Swildon's Hole Mendip Two 00526 31 6 23/02/1992 Swildon's Hole Mendip Hensler's Dig (dig) 00526 32 6 27/02/1992 Flower Pot Mendip 00526 33 7 29/02/1992 St. Cuthbert's Swallet Mendip 00526 34 7 28/02/1992 G.B. Cave Mendip 00526 35 7 01/03/1992 Swildon's Hole Mendip Sump I 00526 36 7 02/03/1992 Peak Cavern Derbyshire 00526 37 7 06/03/1992 Flower Pot Mendip 00526 38 7 04/03/1992 Swildon's Hole Mendip 00526 39 8 07/03/1992 Swildon's Hole Mendip Sump I 00526 40 8 07/03/1992 Wookey Hole Cave Mendip Bang in 24 00526 41 8 Hymac Hole Mendip Comment 00526 42 8 Eighteen Acre Swallet Mendip Comment 00526 43 8 White Pit Mendip Comment 00526 44 8 Flower Pot Mendip Comment 00526 45 8 11/03/1992 Flower Pot Mendip Removed digging tools 00526 46 8 13/03/1992 Charterhouse Cave Mendip 00526 47 9 14/03/1992 Swildon's Hole Mendip Four 00526 48 9 14/03/1992 Swildon's Hole Mendip Upper Series 00526 49 9 12/03/1992 Royal Mail Tunnel, Rathbone London 00526 50 9 15/03/1992 Longwood Swallet Mendip 00526 51 9 15/03/1992 Swildon's Hole Mendip Black Hole 00526 52 10 17/03/1992 Hunters' Hole Mendip 00526 53 10 18/03/1992 Flagpole Rift Dorset 00526 54 10 18/03/1992 New cave Dorset P 00526 55 10 19/03/1992 Sharbutt's Rift Dorset Through to Sandy Cave 00526 56 10 20/03/1992 Swildon's Hole Mendip Upper Series 00526 57 11 21/03/1992 G.B. Cave Mendip Great Chamber 00526 58 11 21/03/1992 Browne's Hole Mendip 00526 59 11 21/03/1992 Swildon's Hole Mendip 00526 60 11 21/03/1992 North Hill Swallet Mendip 00526 61 11 22/03/1992 Charterhouse Cave Mendip Dig 00526 62 11 28/03/1992 Swildon's Hole Mendip Short Round Trip 00526 63 11 28/03/1992 Thrupe Lane Swallet Mendip 00526 64 11 28/03/1992 Sidcot Swallet Mendip 00526 65 12 27/03/1992 Eastwater Cavern Mendip Thirteen Pots P 00526 66 12 29/03/1992 Slaughter Stream Cave Gloucester 00526 67 13 29/03/1992 Cuckoo Cleeves Mendip 00526 68 13 31/03/1992 Sandy Hole Dorset 00526 69 13 01/04/1992 Swildon's Hole Mendip 00526 70 13 29/03/1992 Tisbury swallets & stone mine Wiltshire 00526 71 14 01/04/1992 White Pit Mendip Dig 00526 72 14 01/04/1992 Twin Titties Swallet Mendip Dig 00526 73 14 02/04/1992 Hunters' Hole Mendip 00526 74 14 02/04/1992 Swildon's Hole Mendip Black Hole 00526 75 14 03/04/1992 Eastwater Cavern Mendip 00526 76 14 04/04/1992 Goatchurch Cavern Mendip 00526 77 15 04/04/1992 Charterhouse Cave Mendip 00526 78 15 04/04/1992 Eighteen Acre Swallet Mendip 00526 79 15 04/04/1992 Dan yr Ogof Wales Far North 00526 80 16 05/04/1992 Rhino Rift Mendip 00526 81 16 04/04/1992 Rushy Ground Swallet Mendip Dig 00526 82 16 06/04/1992 Swildon's Hole Mendip Black Hole 00526 83 16 14/1-18/4/92 Caves Philippines 00526 84 16 12/04/1992 White Hole Dorset 00526 85 16 16/04/1992 White Hole Dorset 00526 86 17 15/04/1992 Blacknor Hole Dorset 00526 87 17 18/04/1992 St. Adhelm's Head Dorset ? Possible caves 00526 88 17 20/04/1992 Eastwater Cavern Mendip West End Series 00526 89 18 20/04/1992 Charterhouse Cave Mendip 00526 90 18 17/04/1992 Ogof Ffynnon Ddu Wales Cwm Dwr to One 00526 91 18 18/04/1992 Ogof Ffynnon Ddu Wales One photography 00526 92 18 19/04/1992 Ogof Ffynnon Ddu Wales Two 00526 93 18 19/04/1992 Dan yr Ogof Wales Rising 00526 94 18 25/04/1992 Goatchurch Cavern Mendip 00526 95 18 25/04/1992 Sidcot Swallet Mendip 00526 96 18 20/04/1992 St. Cuthbert's Swallet Mendip 00526 97 19 21/04/1992 Thrupe Lane Swallet Mendip 00526 98 19 21/04/1992 Twin Titties Swallet Mendip Dig closed (see p. 20) 00526 99 19 22/04/1992 St. Cuthbert's Swallet Mendip 00526 100 19 23/04/1992 Eastwater Cavern Mendip 00526 101 19 23/04/1992 G.B. Cave Mendip 00526 102 19 23/04/1992 Swildon's Hole Mendip One 00526 103 19 24/04/1992 Charterhouse Cave Mendip 00526 104 20 25/04/1992 Swildon's Hole Mendip Two 00526 105 20 26/04/1992 G.B. Cave Mendip 00526 106 20 05/04/1992 Carno Adit Wales 00526 107 21 16/04/1992 Caves Ireland 00526 108 21 02/05/1992 Thrupe Lane Swallet Mendip 00526 109 21 03/05/1992 Rushy Ground Swallet Mendip 00526 110 21 04/05/1992 Swildon's Hole Mendip One photography 00526 111 21 06/05/1992 Swildon's Hole Mendip One 00526 112 22 22/03/1992 Ireby Fell Cavern Yorkshire 00526 113 22 02/05/1992 Bar Pot Yorkshire To Gaping Gill 00526 114 22 03/05/1992 Simpson's Pot Yorkshire 00526 115 22 06/05/1992 Cuckoo Cleeves Mendip 00526 116 22 06/05/1992 Rushy Ground Swallet Mendip Dig 00526 117 22 01/05/1992 Dan yr Ogof Wales 00526 118 23 01/05/1992 Dinas Rock Silica Mine Wales Diving 00526 119 23 19/04/1992 Ogof Agen Allwedd Wales 00526 120 23 19/04/1992 Bridge Cave Wales Dive to Little Neath River Cave 00526 121 23 03/05/1992 Swildon's Hole Mendip Two 00526 122 23 Compton Martin Ochre Mine Mendip 00526 123 23 14/05/1992 Stoke Lane Slocker Mendip Two 00526 124 23 16/05/1992 Lionel's Hole Mendip 00526 125 24 16/05/1992 Ogof Ffynnon Ddu Wales Cwm Dwr to Top 00526 126 24 16/05/1992 St. Cuthbert's Swallet Mendip Practice rescue 00526 127 24 13/05/1992 Rushy Ground Swallet Mendip Dig 00526 128 24 17/05/1992 St. Adhelm's Head Dorset ? Possible caves 00526 129 25 23/05/1992 Swildon's Hole Mendip Rolling Thunder dig 00526 130 25 23/05/1992 Compton Martin Ochre Mine Mendip 2 trips 00526 131 25 22/05/1992 Rushy Ground Swallet Mendip 00526 132 26 23/05/1992 Ogof Daren Cilau Wales Camped 00526 133 26 24/05/1992 Charterhouse Cave Mendip 00526 134 26 25/05/1992 Charterhouse Cave Mendip 00526 135 26 25/05/1992 Goatchurch Cavern Mendip 00526 136 26 24/05/1992 Little Neath River Cave Wales 00526 137 26 24/05/1992 Porth yr Ogof Wales Swim through 00526 138 27 29/05/1992 Pierre's Pot Mendip Dig 00526 139 27 30/05/1992 Swildon's Hole Mendip Double Pots rescue 00526 140 27 31/05/1992 Ogof Ffynnon Ddu Wales Cwm Dwr to Top 00526 141 28 03/06/1992 Rushy Ground Swallet Mendip Dig 00526 142 29 June Avon Gorge Interceptor Tunnel Bristol 00526 143 30 10/06/1992 Swildon's Hole Mendip Upper Series 00526 144 30 10/06/1992 Drunkard's Hole Mendip Dig 00526 145 30 09/06/1992 German Underground Hospital Jersey 00526 146 30 12/06/1992 Dallimore's Cave Mendip 00526 147 31 10/06/1992 Drunkard's Hole Mendip See p. 30 00526 148 31 19/06/1992 Swildon's Hole Mendip Black Hole Series 00526 149 31 13/06/1992 Hurtle Pot Yorkshire 00526 150 32 24/06/1992 Blacknor Hole Dorset 00526 151 32 13/06/1992 Cwmorthen Slate Mine Wales 00526 152 32 14/06/1992 Cwmystwyth Lead Mine Wales 00526 153 32 14/06/1992 St.
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