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Hillgrove 1956-1958 WESSEX CAVE CLUB LOGBOOK 1956 - 1958 Acq. No. No. Page Date Cave Area Notes Survey Significant 00441 1 3 13/09/1956 Easter Hole Mendip Dig 00441 2 3 14/09/1956 Stoke Lane Slocker Mendip Survey 2 00441 3 3 15/09/1956 Cuckoo Cleeves Mendip Dig 00441 4 4 16/09/1956 Dallimore's Cave Mendip 00441 5 4 17/09/1956 Stoke Lane Slocker Mendip 00441 6 4 18/09/1956 Swildon's Hole Mendip 00441 7 4 18/09/1956 Cuckoo Cleeves Mendip 00441 8 4 19/09/1956 Cuckoo Cleeves Mendip 00441 9 4 22/09/1956 Cuckoo Cleeves Mendip Dig 00441 10 5 23/09/1956 Lamb Leer Cavern Mendip 00441 11 5 23/09/1956 Swildon's Hole Mendip 00441 12 6 23/09/1956 Swildon's Hole Mendip Duck II 00441 13 6 29/09/1956 Swildon's Hole Mendip Maypole Series exploration P (p8) P 00441 14 8 30/09/1956 Swildon's Hole Mendip 00441 15 8 30/09/1956 Barrow Rake Swallet Mendip Seeking permission to dig 00441 16 8 05/10/1956 Wookey Hole Cave Mendip 00441 17 9 06/10/1956 Barrow Rake Swallet Mendip Dig 00441 18 9 07/10/1956 Barrow Rake Swallet Mendip Dig 00441 19 9 21/10/1956 Cuckoo Cleeves Mendip Photography 00441 20 10 21/10/1956 Nordrach Mine Mendip 00441 21 10 21/10/1956 Cross Swallet Mendip 00441 22 10 21/10/1956 Hope Wood rock shelters Mendip 00441 23 10 21/10/1956 St. Cuthbert's Swallet Mendip 00441 24 11 27/10/1956 Swildon's Hole Mendip 00441 25 12 28/10/1956 Stoke Lane Slocker Mendip 00441 26 12 28/10/1956 Hillier's Cave Mendip 00441 27 12 27/10/1956 Eastwater Cavern Mendip 00441 28 12 28/10/1956 Wookey Hole Cave Mendip 00441 29 12 28/10/1956 Swildon's Hole Mendip 00441 30 13 04/11/1956 G.B. Cave Mendip 00441 31 13 03/11/1956 Goatchurch Cavern Mendip 00441 32 13 03/11/1956 Rod's Pot Mendip 00441 33 13 03/11/1956 East Twin Swallet Mendip 00441 34 13 03/11/1956 Mendip 00441 35 13 04/11/1956 G.B. Cave Mendip 00441 36 13 04/11/1956 Swildon's Hole Mendip 00441 37 14 04/11/1956 East Twin Swallet Mendip 00441 38 14 04/11/1956 Rod's Pot Mendip 00441 39 14 04/11/1956 G.B. Cave Mendip 00441 40 14 04/11/1956 Swildon's Hole Mendip 00441 41 15 18/11/1956 Cuckoo Cleeves Mendip Animal skeleton found (See 2/12/56) 00441 42 16 24/11/1956 Cuckoo Cleeves Mendip 00441 43 16 25/11/1956 Cuckoo Cleeves Mendip 00441 44 16 24/11/1956 Stoke Lane Slocker Mendip Ford's Fabled Passage' (hoax) 00441 45 18 02/12/1956 Cuckoo Cleeves Mendip Skeleton fox or dog (See 18/11/56) 00441 46 18 18/12/1956 Swildon's Hole Mendip Paradise Regained, and Priddy Pool Passage dig 00441 47 18 19/12/1956 Swildon's Hole Mendip 00441 48 19 16/12/1956 Cuckoo Cleeves Mendip 00441 49 19 16/12/1956 Swildon's Hole Mendip 00441 50 20 23/12/1956 Dallimore's Cave Mendip Bat ringing 00441 51 21 29/12/1956 Cuckoo Cleeves Mendip 00441 52 21 28/12/1956 Eastwater Cavern Mendip Primrose Pot 00441 53 22 30/12/1956 Swildon's Hole Mendip Priddy Pool Passage dig 00441 54 23 30/12/1956 Swildon's Hole Mendip 00441 55 23 01/01/1957 Cross Swallet Mendip 00441 56 23 02/01/1957 Eastwater Cavern Mendip 00441 57 24 01/01/1957 Cuckoo Cleeves Mendip 00441 58 24 03/01/1957 Swildon's Hole Mendip 00441 59 24 03/01/1957 Stoke Lane Slocker Mendip Surveying 00441 60 25 30/12/1956 Swildon's Hole Mendip New Grottoes P (p26) P 00441 61 27 05/01/1957 Green Ore mineshafts Mendip 00441 62 27 05/01/1957 Dallimore's Cave Mendip 00441 63 27 05/01/1957 Cuckoo Cleeves Mendip 00441 64 27 05/01/1957 Swildon's Hole Mendip Bat ringing 00441 65 28 07/01/1957 Rod's Pot Mendip 00441 66 28 07/01/1957 Sidcot Swallet Mendip 00441 67 28 07/01/1957 Goatchurch Cavern Mendip 00441 68 28 08/01/1957 Eastwater Cavern Mendip 00441 69 28 10/01/1957 Swildon's Hole Mendip 00441 70 29 18/01/1957 Swildon's Hole Mendip 00441 71 30 19/01/1957 Cuckoo Cleeves Mendip 00441 72 30 26/01/1957 Hunters' Hole Mendip 00441 73 30 27/01/1957 Eastwater Cavern Mendip 00441 74 30 27/01/1957 Swildon's Hole Mendip 00441 75 31 09/02/1957 Dallimore's Cave Mendip Bat ringing 00441 76 31 09/02/1957 Swildon's Hole Mendip 00441 77 31 10/02/1957 Race Course Hole 00441 78 31 16/02/1957 Stoke Lane Slocker Mendip Surveying, photography 00441 79 32 17/02/1957 Swildon's Hole Mendip Photography 00441 80 33 03/02/1957 Gough's Old Cave Mendip Bat ringing 00441 81 33 03/02/1957 Long Hole Mendip Bat ringing 00441 82 33 03/02/1957 Great Oones Hole Mendip Bat ringing 00441 83 34 24/02/1957 Lamb Leer Cavern Mendip 00441 84 35 02/03/1957 Axbridge Ochre Cave Mendip Bat ringing 00441 85 35 02/03/1957 Sandford Hill caves Mendip Bat ringing 00441 86 35 02/03/1957 Pearl Mine Mendip Bat ringing 00441 87 35 02/03/1957 Sandford Levvy Mendip Not found 00441 88 36 03/03/1957 Banwell Ochre Caves Mendip 00441 89 36 03/03/1957 August Hole Mendip 00441 90 36 03/03/1957 Goatchurch Cavern Mendip 00441 91 36 03/03/1957 East Twin Swallet Mendip 00441 92 36 10/03/1957 Swildon's Hole Mendip Lost karabiner 00441 93 37 16/03/1957 Longwood Swallet Mendip Too wet 00441 94 38 16/03/1957 Swildon's Hole Mendip Photography 00441 95 38 17/03/1957 Dallimore's Cave Mendip 00441 96 39 23/03/1957 Swildon's Hole Mendip 00441 97 39 24/03/1957 Eastwater Cavern Mendip 00441 98 39 23/03/1957 Stoke Lane Slocker Mendip Photography 00441 99 39 24/03/1957 Swildon's Hole Mendip Photography 00441 100 39 26/03/1957 Stoke Lane Slocker Mendip 00441 101 39 29/03/1957 Swildon's Hole Mendip 00441 102 39 29/03/1957 Barrow Rake Swallet Mendip Dig 00441 103 40 30/03/1957 Swildon's Hole Mendip Black Hole. Photography. New passage found P 00441 104 41 31/03/1957 Swildon's Hole Mendip Sherpa for trip 30/3/57 00441 105 42 01/04/1957 Eastwater Cavern Mendip 00441 106 42 02/04/1957 August Hole Mendip Too wet 00441 107 42 02/04/1957 Longwood Swallet Mendip 00441 108 44 03/04/1957 Swildon's Hole Mendip Mud Sump 00441 109 44 04/04/1957 Green Ore mineshafts Mendip 00441 110 45 06/03/1957 Eastwater Cavern Mendip Bolts at pitches, to aid rescues P 00441 111 46 07/04/1957 Hillier's Cave Mendip 00441 112 48 19/04/1957 August Hole Mendip 00441 113 49 19/04/1957 Swildon's Hole Mendip Mud Sump 00441 114 50 20/04/1957 Lamb Leer Cavern Mendip 00441 115 50 21/04/1957 G.B. Cave Mendip 00441 116 50 20/04/1957 Swildon's Hole Mendip Surveyed Paradise Regained 00441 117 51 21/04/1957 Swildon's Hole Mendip Rescue lost boys 00441 118 52 22/04/1957 Barrow Rake Swallet Mendip Dig 00441 119 52 22/44/57 Swildon's Hole Mendip 00441 120 52 19/04/1957 Ebbor Mendip 00441 121 52 19/04/1957 Wookey Hole Cave Mendip 00441 122 52 20/04/1957 August Hole Mendip 00441 123 52 21/04/1957 Hunters' Hole Mendip Dig 00441 124 52 22/04/1957 Hunters' Hole Mendip Dig 00441 125 53 23/04/1957 Swildon's Hole Mendip 00441 126 53 24/04/1957 Eastwater Cavern Mendip 00441 127 54 27/04/1957 Swildon's Hole Mendip Priddy Pool Passage dig 00441 128 54 28/04/1957 Lamb Leer Cavern Mendip 00441 129 54 28/04/1957 Swildon's Hole Mendip Work on entrance 00441 130 55 04/05/1957 Stoke Lane Slocker Mendip Completed survey 00441 131 55 04/05/1957 Barrow Rake Swallet Mendip Dig 00441 132 55 05/05/1957 Barrow Rake Swallet Mendip Dig 00441 133 56 10/05/1957 Eastwater Cavern Mendip 00441 134 56 11/05/1957 Barrow Rake Swallet Mendip Dig 00441 135 56 11/05/1957 Longwood Swallet Mendip 00441 136 56 12/05/1957 Swildon's Hole Mendip 00441 137 57 18/05/1957 Barrow Rake Swallet Mendip Dig 00441 138 57 25/05/1957 August Hole Mendip 00441 139 58 01/06/1957 Swildon's Hole Mendip 00441 140 59 01/06/1957 August Hole Mendip 00441 141 59 02/06/1957 G.B. Cave Mendip 00441 142 60 02/06/1957 G.B. Cave Mendip 00441 143 60 07/06/1957 Eastwater Cavern Mendip 00441 144 60 08/06/1957 Swildon's Hole Mendip 00441 145 61 10/06/1957 Stoke Lane Slocker Mendip 00441 146 61 22/06/1957 Eastwater Cavern Mendip 00441 147 61 22/06/1957 Lamb Leer Cavern Mendip 00441 148 62 22/06/1957 Swildon's Hole Mendip To 4 via Blue Pencil 00441 149 62 29/06/1957 Gough's Cave Mendip 00441 150 62 30/06/1957 Swildon's Hole Mendip 00441 151 62 30/06/1957 August Hole Mendip 00441 152 63 06/07/1957 August Hole Mendip 00441 153 63 06/07/1957 Swildon's Hole Mendip 00441 154 64 14/07/1957 Lamb Leer Cavern Mendip 00441 155 64 13/07/1957 Swildon's Hole Mendip 00441 156 64 14/07/1957 G.B.
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