5/12/17

 we had expected something much smaller, not a deep shaft and a fairly comfortable-sized passageVelma Aho, Mika Ahvenniemi, Jukka Erik Palm, Pasi Suominen, Richard Sore, Miri Simey, Duncan Simey, Dave Walker, Mike Moxon, Jonathan Riley

A visiting group of four Finns joined the dig. We were all very impressed by it, as to dig in. Each of us took turns to dig 6 buckets' worth, and some of us got so into it they didn't want to stop. Ferrying buckets was less fun, but greatly helped by the aerial tramway. All in all a surprisingly entertaining evening; we're happy we got to see the dig and make it that tiny bit bigger!

Words from Velma Aho

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14/11/17

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Duncan Simey, Jonathan Riley, Dave Walker, Stu Lindsay

2.5hrs

Brewery bags obtained – thanks to Miri for collecting and Jem for supplying.

A productive engineering evening. Put up bolts and line for washing/drying line for the bags on a zigzag, Stu repaired the aerial runway, 20 buckets were filled to fill the brewery bags to fill in the hole to move the ladder and the ladder was raised by about 2ft and retied into place. Hopefully numbers permitting, we can get back to digging with buckets again next week and leave the bags to wash/dry longer! 

7/11/17

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Mike Moxon, Jonathan Riley, Duncan Simey

2hrs 15mins

Dave called in sick last minute so we were left with 5. Decided to give it a go with bucket relay rather than using the bags as they are minging! It was hard effort moving the buckets between 5 of us, but we dug 50 out (10 each) and swapped places around to wear ourselves out equally on each location. Dig seems drier and quite a lot of smallish boulders are coming out. Floor still looking interesting and there is quite a bit of roof mud we ought to bring down… Engineering works planned for next week assuming we can obtain brewery bags. 

31/10/17

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Andrew McLeod, Mike Moxon, Jonathan Riley, Dave Walker, Martin Cross (MCG)

2.5hrs

10 buckets each so total of 70ish, good fast digging and lots of spoil cleared, really need to look at some engineering works soon, aerial runway is now knackered until repaired and we need to raise the ladder soon and a washing/drying line for bags would be really useful! 

24/10/17

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Duncan Simey, Dave Walker, Jonathan Riley

2hrs 15mins

Good session of digging, annoyingly having to use bags as not enough of us to use the buckets. The bags are getting really sticky and heavy, we need to create a washing/drying line for them or recruit more people to make sure we have at least 6 each time! We all did around 10 bags each, a few rocks came out also. We will need to plan in a bit of a ladder lifting evening soon but need to get some more brewery bags before then to use to fill the hole with. 

17/10/17

James Begley, Duncan Simey, Miri Simey, Dave Walker, Jonathan Riley, Simon Flower
2.5hrs
filled lots of buckets each after emptying the bags out at the start from last week. 

10/10/17

Blog from Duncan Simey

Attended by Jon, Dave, Stu and I - All last week's bags were emptied and packed back up to go straight back down the dig. We managed to get 44 filled bags back to the start of the ropeway. One more person would have made a heck of a difference

Passage is obstinately still going straight on

3/10/17

Blog by Duncan Simey
Last night was James, Jon, Dave, Stu and myself and we filled nearly 50 bags and stacked them in the entrance. They will need emptying next time.
Opinion is split about what the passage is doing. James thinks it might be about to turn to the right, Jon points out that it is still in a dead straight line. I wonder if it is starting to twist from an upright passage to being off-vertical. Either way, it is still going along the joint between the grey and red rock and the air at the dig face was mist free. There was a trickle of water in the passage last night which was seeping in from the full length of the joint on the left hand side and not from the entrance. It's all looking very promising.

27/9/17

Blog from Duncan Simey

Good session last night - James, Mike, Jon, Dave, Leoni and myself.

Tidied last weeks digging. Approx 24 bags hauled from storage at the start of the ropeway and approx 12 bags in a wall at the entrance. All bags are currently empty and laid out for 'cleaning'.
Approx 70 buckets removed and everybody got a turn at the dig face. About half the spoil went into sacks walling in the bottom of the ladder, just a few more and we can raise the ladder.

Most of this weeks digging concentrated on the roof, which is high enough that at one point Leoni was digging standing up. Still another session needed to clean the roof out properly.
Passage still looks like it is going straight ahead.We ought to start a betting book on how far the passage will go before it changes direction.

19/9/17

From Duncan

Tuesday night's digging was steady progress - approx 50 bags dug between 4 of us. Half were taken to the surface and half are stacked at the start of the aerial ropeway. The tube is still going straight ahead. Only minor glitch was Stu locked himself out of his van blocking the rest of us in. We managed to squeeze our cars past (tight and slippy). Dave took it on the chin and shuttled Stu home to get a spare set of keys while Miri, Jon and I retired to the Hunters.

11/9/17

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Jonathan Riley, Stu Lindsay, Mike Waterworth, Dave Walker, Duncan Simey

2hrs 15mins

Despite arriving just after a downpour and the hole nearest the gate taking a stream, the dig itself was quite dry. Emptying the bags from last week was quite gloopy at the spoil heap though. Stu did a bit of maintenance on the wire, and apart from Stu not wanting to dig tonight, we took it in turns and did 10-15 skips each and are still steadily moving forwards with the floor still being like there are sort of boulders there and not following the trench anymore. Think we need to continue to follow the main passage forwards for now as it’s still heading onwards with similar dimensions although drying out and the digging is definitely harder. 

6/9/17

Blog from Duncan Simey

Just five of us last night - Jon, Dave, Stu, Miri and I.
Emptied last weeks bags and brought about 40 more to the surface. Reasonable progress considering the team size :)

The two rocks in the floor just past the hole still aren't fully uncovered yet. Discussion in the pub about whether they will need banging. They aren't particularly in the way at the, so only need to move them if want to see what is underneath. We think that will depend on what we find in the metre or so of passage on the other side of the rocks.

Digging is quite a bit slower than it was. There is enough stone in the clay that the mattock is getting less effective and the clay is drier/firmer than it used to be. Colour banding in the dig face is rather beautiful.

I was loading the aerial ropeway and noticed the rear roller has a flat spot so bad the rope is actually cutting through the central pin. Front roller is badly worn but not quite so bad. Stu is on the case.

28/8/17

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Duncan Simey, Miri Simey, Jonathan Riley, Dave Walker

3.5hrs

Arrived to find Duncan had filled the place with canned smoke! Unfortunately there was very little draught tonight, despite the good signs last week, so can only assume we’ve blocked the floor hole or something else has changed below us – to stop the hole filling anymore, an empty bag was put in to block it anyway. Good session tonight though with the longer time, end is changing - no longer following the groove in the floor and changing shape and the angle of the sediment layers is more diagonal. Very little draught tonight, but with 3.5hrs digging session, quite good progress made.

22/8/17 a draught!

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Mike Moxon, Dave Walker, Jonathan Riley

2.5hrs

A bagging session tonight as only 5 of us. A large boulder was moved by Estelle and then removed by James and Mike and this exposed a hole in the floor that started draughting a lot – can lose the crow bar in it and it looks like it is surrounded by boulders rather than the floor now, but need to expose some more before we can work out what is going on. You could feel the draught up by the inner end of the aerial runway! 

15/8/17

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Mike Moxon, Jonathan Riley, Dave Walker, Andrew McLeod

2.5hrs

6 of us can just about work it with the skips rather than resorting to bags, but it’s harder work having to take them further, but we each took it in turns to remove 15(ish) buckets from the dig. There is a large boulder we’re digging around in the floor and seems to be going down a bit as well there – suspect the boulder will need some additional persuasion of the Dr Nobel’s kind to reduce in order to get it out. Still a reasonable amount of digging around it to actually see how big it is though. Estelle removed the 2^nd of the catch boulders with hammer/bar below the aerial highway so the buckets are staying on better now too as the line has sagged a bit again. 

8/7/17

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Jonathan Riley, Duncan Simey, Stu Lindsay, Dave Walker, Andrew McLeod

2.5hrs

Good digging session and we tightened the wire for the aerial runway too and also filled a bunch of the new brewery bags we’d got. All bar Stu had a dig tonight and still going down slowly although lost about a foot on height at the moment at the end. Floor channel still there and a bit of an alcove off to the left. Pulling out a few larger boulders now. The spoil heap outside is slowly rising! 

1/8/17

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Duncan Simey, Mike Moxon, Jonathan Riley, Stu Lindsay, Mike Waterworth, Luke Edwards, David Walker

2.5hrs

Really good productive digging session. Firstly moved from staging area to outside and emptied the 30 odd bags Kevin filled last week, then we set to digging using the skips this week as with 9, it gave us easy movement. Mike showed Luke around the site initially as he’d not been before and also with his geology knowledge would hopefully give us some ideas of what’s in the spoil. Stu dug first and as there was a lot of us, we did roughly 15-20 skip changeover for everyone. David went in second, then Mike W, then Luke, then Duncan. We were into 3 figures of skips, by the end, lost count though! The spoil heap is noticeably getting bigger and we’ve put another layer of bags around the base of the ladder. Needing to get some more brewery bags before next week’s session. 

25/7/17

Estelle Sandford, Jonathon Riley, Kevin Clinton, Joan Goddard, David Walker (WCC & Wells museum)

2.5hrs

Emptied the bags from last week and then got on with digging. Kevin stayed digging the face all evening and filled some 30-40 bags. David and Joan were collecting samples of the spoil to get it geologically investigated. 

18/7/17

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Liz Wire - Jon had car problems and didn't make it

2hrs

emptied the bags we filled last week and then Liz filled about a dozen which we brought to surface for emptying. Few baby toads to rescue too. 

11/7/17

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Jonathan Riley, Miri Simey

2hrs

Not enough to do the full haul so a bag filling session – did 10 bags each and stacked ready for moving next week as ran out of time. Dig still looking good and heading nicely downhill following water worn passage. Toad rescue for 3 big toads that were in the spoil heap. 

27/6/17

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Duncan Simey, Miri Simey, Jonathan Riley, Stu Lindsay

2.5hrs

Last week Duncan, Mike and Jon filled a lot of bags from the dig and stashed them as only the 3 of them, so first job was to get them out. Duncan’s bags were massive and I think he may have learned he will lose friends (to a hernia if nothing else!) if he overfills bags again! They need to be smaller and more ‘rugby ball’ shaped rather than massive footballs to make it easier for emptying. Once emptied, digging and hauling out commenced. Estelle did all the digging tonight as we didn’t start digging until a bit later. We must be a good 10m down the slope at least now and there is a water worn channel in the floor and still getting mini-avens above. 2 large rocks removed from right hand shelf tonight as well. Usual quality of random coloured and textured spoil coming out. 

20/6/17

Duncan Simey, Mike Moxon, Jonathan Riley

from Mike - As we were short on numbers we filled 40 bags with mud & found another tiny aven before retiring to the Hunters'.

13/6/17

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Mike Moxon, Duncan Simey, Miri Simey, Jonathan Riley, Stu Lindsay

2.5hrs

Duncan, Miri and Mike rotated through digging all evening while Stu was fettling the aerial runway and James, Estelle and Jon were hauling and emptying buckets and Jon filled bags to go around the base of the ladder to protect it from getting buried! The aerial runway takes the need for 2 extra people out, so means we can get away with 5 now. 3 below and 2 surface hauling and emptying. The base of the wall is in place, so getting some filled bags in place as a path was the next mission as the mud is still very sticky. Repaired buckets with string for handles don’t work on the runway so we need to get some more as down to 4 useable ones. Hopefully back to more regular digging again now the engineering works have been done and we’ve set up for better spoil dumping – hopefully we might find cave with space to dump stuff before we run out of space…!

6/6/17

blog post written by Mike Moxon

Duncan & I arrived before Stu & Jon, so Duncan went to look for survey points in the top passage, whilst I went to check out the main dig - turned out some of the mud had collapsed at the end of the passage, so I levered out some more & found another small aven. Once Stu & Jon had arrived they started fixing the cable & I filled the buckets from the collapse before hand over handing them back to the spoil heap. Cable fixed at both ends & first bucket run back along it, but needs more work in removing rock that gets in the way (mainly on floor). Some more of the collapse still to remove as well.

30/5/17

Blog written by Duncan Simey

Relaxed evening at Cutlers Green.
Stuart fettled the ladder to make it easier to step on and off.
Jon and Mike built the wall
Miri and I improved the rock to clay ratio in the foundations at the right hand end of the wall.
Wall building finished with a team effort getting large boulders into the foundations at the right hand end of the wall.
Last job of the day was for Stuart to measure and plan for installing the Ariel Ropeway.

22/5/17

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Jonathan Riley, Stu Lindsay

2hrs

Estelle and Jon descended the ladder whilst it was held securely at the top and set to work levelling the floor out to make a good base for it while Stu and James broke down the old ladder and moved the scaff bars back with the rest of the tower from the ladder and drilled the bolt holes to retain the ladder at the top properly. Once the ladder was properly sited at the bottom, the top was secured and then all continued moving rocks and mud around at the bottom to get ready to start building a wall of bags/rocks to retain the spoil in the rest of the shaft. Noted a rock in the underhang not looking too good, but unless it decides to move itself, best left until we’ve added more mud at the bottom for it to splat onto! Next week’s session will be creating aerial runway for hauling from the bottom of the dig to make that easier!

16/5/17 New Ladder!

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Stu Lindsay, Jonathan Riley

2.5hrs

New ladder! Stu had attached a bit of wood to the bottom of the section we retrieved from HLIS. He set to drilling the holes to join that to the longer section from WP. The rest of us moved the remains of the scaffold tower to by the greenhouse and then assisted Stu with bolting the sections together. Long section is in the middle and the shorter WP section at the top. It was very heavy, but we decided the best way to handle it was for Estelle to go down the bottom via the old ladder so as to help move that and guide at points where it was safe to do so! Estelle assisted lifting the bottom of the old ladder to the right to give space for the new one and the new one was lowered into place with ropes, while Estelle hid at the entrance to the dig in case any rocks came down. Once the ladder was on the floor, Estelle guided the bottom, but it was decided the old one needed to be removed to make it easier to relocate the new one into the best position. Old ladder removed, new one in position, needs some work to stabilise the bottom and build up some rocks around it as it’s above the location where the old one and there’s a hole where the old one was. The top has been temporarily tied off with ropes as bolts need to be put in place to secure it with chains, but ran out of light and time (and weather as it started to rain!) so retreated to the pub. 

3/5/17 - measuring pit and ladders

Estelle Sandford, James Begley

30mins

We have measured everything up properly now - from the ledge (allowing nothing above for safety!), the depth is 7.02m to the rocks on the floor the existing ladder is now resting on. The WP ladder is 2.37m + 3.79m = 6.15m (to the holes, so this will be the actual joined length). It's width is 27cm to the outside edges. We need to locate a 1-2m section of steel ladder from another location or if someone has a section spare – putting the feelers out around club/diggers forums to see if anything is available. We’re thinking that we would gradually fill in that side of the pit for safety as we’re seeing more and more loose rocks at the top now from ‘weathering’ and it does solve the spoil dumping issue for quite some time. The idea then being that we’d raise/shorten the ladder as required (so the section can be a loan for a short period of time!), but looking to wire/chain/bolt it at the top to fix it securely and also put a bit more safety around the top for getting onto it. 

2/5/17

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Mike Moxon, Jonathan Riley

2hrs

Mike checked out a couple more bits of precarious looking rock on the hedge side and a couple of bits came down with no effort, but the worst bit visually is actually quite solid thankfully. We then set to work digging the ladder out. Initially we assumed that we’d buried just the one rung, but it appears that the spoil has slowly crept up around it and we had actually managed to bury 4 rungs. Once uncovered, which took most of the evening, we were able to raise it. 2 of us exited to the top so we could hold the ladder up with rope while Mike and Jon filled the hole back in and topped it off with large rocks to sit the ladder on for now. The bottom run and the feet are buckled and not looking good having been buried for some time, so replacing the ladder is now a matter of urgency. It is now tied off to 3 fixings at the top as it’s a bit unstable! James and Estelle agreed to pop back over Wednesday with tape measure and distoX to measure what we need to get to put the steel ladder in place. 

26/4/17

Estelle Sandford, Mike Moxon, Jonathan Riley

2hrs

Spent the evening dismantling and removing the remainder of the scaffold tower. We need to replace the ladder as soon as possible as that is looking a little banana shaped these days and quite vulnerable without the scaffold tower. Also need to arrange to get some digging bags from the brewery. 

18/4/17

blog from Mike

Stu, Jon, Dave Lossl & Miranda Litchfield (both MCG) helped remove the top level of scaffold tower (and a bit more loose rock around that edge) before I showed our visitors around the dig & the others worked out where a winch could be placed, as well as the length of ladder required, before retiring to the Waldegrave at 9pm..

10/4/17

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Jonathan Riley, Duncan Simey, Miri Pihlaja, Stu Lindsay

2.5hrs

Good digging session, lots removed from the bottom – Duncan and Miri dug first and then Stu dug for the remainder of the evening. Going down nicely and still easy digging. Scaffold tower needs removing and then we need to look at best methods for spoil dumping – with the collapses on the walls far side, it’s making sense to actually fill up that half of the hole with spoil to help protect it. We also need to swap the ladder out as soon as possible. 

4/4/17

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Mike Moxon, Jonathan Riley, Duncan Simey, Miri Pihlaja, Stu Lindsay

2.5hrs

Before going digging, we decided to check out a rock that looked like it was getting loose near the top of the shaft to the left of the ladder as you look in. With no effort with a crow bar at arms length, a large boulder came down, hitting the scaff tower side bars quite badly and bending 5 of them. During the course of the evening whilst digging the other side and spoil dumping, the spoil dumping people reported smaller rocks coming down over that side too. All bar Stu dug tonight for around 15 skips each and dig is still progressing well and easy digging. 

27/3/17

Estelle Sandford, Jonathan Riley, Duncan Simey, Miri Pihlaja

2.5hrs

Estelle went in first to dig for around 15 or so skips, still easy going, still following floor, ceiling and 2 walls and still draughting, plus still getting the array of colours out of the spoil! Jon went in next and did around the same number of skips before Duncan had a go and did his 15, then Miri’s turn and she just carried on until we stopped supplying her with empties! Dig is continuing down and still looking very interesting. 

21/3/17

Estelle Sandford, Mike Moxon, Jonathan Riley, Stu Lindsay
2hrs
After checking the place for surplus frogs/toads/newts and putting about a dozen in a bucket to remove later, we got on with digging the top dig. Estelle got 2 new buckets of the good type and set to work digging first. Fairly easy digging through layers of sediment and gravels, clays, etc. like usual. Still following a solid floor at the moment and have solid roof about 4ft above and about 3ft wide with solid walls. Air circulating well. Jon went in after Estelle and then Stu and Mike, all doing 15 buckets each, but Stu stuck in a sneaky one, so we got to 61! By the end of the digging the roof is going up slightly so maybe another aven? Dig continuing well forward and can lose the bar in it. 

15/3/17

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Mike Moxon
1.5hrs
spent the evening removing frogs, toads and newts from all the holes, around 120 frogs and toads and about 10 newts - all relocated to the pond. Quick look at top dig found a small pool on the left, but will resume digging next week. 

21/2/17

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Mike Moxon, Duncan Simey, Suvi Miri Pihlaja, Stu Lindsay, Jonathan Riley
2hrs
Good session in the top dig, Mike went in first and dug and was followed by Duncan and then Estelle, the floor is now solid rock at the end and sloping off slightly towards the left hand wall. Both walls appear to be reasonably solid although not probed far enough to see where the gaps are yet and the last greyer boulder exposed towards the end of the evening  looks more like a boulder than floor. Going forwards is a wall about 4ft of mud/clay/sediments of many colours and textures - all fairly easy going and still following down the scalloped roof. 

14/2/17

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Mike Moxon, Jonathan Riley, Jeremy Fry, Stu Lindsay
2.5hrs
Estelle started on bottom dig and this was soon dug to a point of conclusion that the only way forwards is to attempt to blast with a dose of Dr Nobel’s – will debate this before deciding if this is worth following. To the far end, it has closed down to rock, which does feel like it might be reduced, but hard to tell. The ‘way on’, getting narrower and narrower, is heading back under the entrance and means undermining everything and would be too dangerous to continue. Having done that, James took to the top dig and continued work in there as that does look a lot more promising and is still easy digging. After a number of skips, Stu took over digging and then the final session was Jon’s. Lots of spoil removed and continuing downwards and onwards. Bit of an issue exiting as the gate decided to fail about a metre wide and needed the key to get out! Still made it out by pub time so all ok!

7/2/17

Written by Duncan Simey - Estelle and James skiing so not around!

Productive session at Cutlers last night with Mike Moxon, Leonie, Jon, Suvi Miri Pihlaja and Stu doing electrics above ground.
The team worked in the right hand dig continuing last week's effort.
The layer of black/red/yellow clinker has largely been removed. Underneath that is approx 6 inches of bright pink bubblegum (a sod to dig out). We dug a hole through the bubblegum and hit a large flat rock surface with a trickle of water running across it. We tried to look for a join between the flat rock and the wall in case it is floor, but we ran out of time.
We also attacked the far wall of clay. The expected ceiling continuation didn't emerge. Instead, we have what could be the start of a round tube promising an easy horizontal crawl onwards.
The air was in tip top condition with no mist all evening and a noticeable constant drift towards the entrance. Breathing at floor level still looked like it was heading towards the entrance. It seems it is coming in from somewhere and is not recirculation.
Stu says the clinker is not iron - he is working out what it is.

31/1/17

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Duncan Simey, Suvi Miri Pihlaja, Stu Lindsay, Jonathan Riley
2hrs
Top dig session tonight, bottom dig has a puddle in it at the moment. Jon went in first and had a dig and initially the work caused a fog, but then Jon found a little hole somewhere and the fog cleared and for the remainder of the evening there was a draught and no real fogging again. Stu in the meantime capped a boulder nearer the top that was in the way. James went in after and continued digging down, before swapping with Duncan and Miri. Lots of interesting yellows, reds and blacks in the mud, not really sure what it is, may need to seek some advice from a geologist! 

24/1/17

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Mike Moxon, Jonathan Riley, Stu Lindsay, Liz Wire
2hrs
Digging the top dig for a change as we had enough. Haven’t touched this since the flooding back in November so most of the first couple of digs by Estelle and Mike were clearing the spoil that had come in from the flooding before Mike and then Liz were able to continue actually digging the bottom. Some of the roof isn’t looking great since mud has washed out from between some rocks lower down and we need to investigate some stabilisation for the future. 

18/1/17

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Mike Moxon, Jonathan Riley, Tony Massey
2hrs
Digging the bottom dig, need a rope to haul up the buckets now as too far down to pass them up, but it’s useful to have knots in the rope so not using the bolt yet. Estelle dug first, followed by Jon then Tony followed by James for the last bit. A good 8-10 ft down now and possibly hitting some more solid boulders/rock. Need to clear more out. Need to bring more rope over and a pulley. 

10/1/17

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Mike Moxon, Jonathan Riley, Stu Lindsay
2hrs
digging in the bottom hole again, still going down nicely and dig a little drier, making it easier to empty buckets a bit. Stu turned up late to cap the boulder at the top, which took 3 caps to break it up enough and then that was removed and also drilled for a bolt, so we can now look to haul up from the dig as it's getting to be too high to pass the buckets now.

3/1/17

Estelle Sandford, Jonathan Riley, Fran Campbell.
2hrs
Fran slightly late and others all not available, so Estelle and Jonathan got on with digging - it was very hard work to dig and transport buckets and empty and ended up doing this in 2 stages until Fran arrived. Good digging, going down nicely, needs a boulder capped on the ledge at the top and will need a bolt soon too for hauling up from dig as it's starting to get out of reach. 

20/12/16

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Mike Moxon, Stu Lindsay
2hrs
Digging in the bottom dig, Mike started off, lots of clay & gravelly stuff coming out, continuing straight down. Estelle took over and removed a bit of rock as well. As you look into the dig, the right hand wall is closing off slightly, but appears the left hand wall is undercutting, so just keeping on digging down and removing everything! James took over for a bit until pub o clock! Said Merry Christmas to Kevin before heading to the pub. Next trip 2017!