5/7/16

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Claire Havard and Kevin Clinton joined us to catch up with what we'd been doing.

2hrs

Claire's first visit so lifelined her down the ladder before showing her the digs and then letting her explore the top bit with Kevin who had been away for a few months and we've made a lot of progress on the lower digs, although he's still keen the top digs look interesting. The draught of the middle dig was good again and that is what makes it most interesting. James dug for a while then Claire had a go then we gave up and went to the pub. 

14/6/16

Estelle Sandford, Mike Moxon, Duncan Simey, James Begley, Andrew Atkinson

2.5hrs

James and Andrew continued the survey, while Estelle, Duncan and Mike set to clearing out the bang debris in order to get a look at the way on in the floor. The bang debris was so great, it took most of the digging session to clear it, but eventually Duncan was able to squeeze in a little way and fire a camera around the corner at the end. The end doesn’t look greatly inspiring at the moment, but the site was draughting well at various stages of the evening. Our spoil heap is about 2m higher than it was when dug out now. The survey gave us 113m for the main hole, which was longer than expected and the lowest point is actually in one of the very top digs, but the whole thing trends towards Sherborne Springs/Cheddar sort of direction.