14/6/22

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Mike Moxon, Jon Riley, Dave Walker, Chris George, Stu Lindsay

2hrs

Chris dug first as he hadn’t been digging for a while, so he got to see how much we’d progressed. Much of the shelf has now gone and we’re removing a lot of larger rocks now, 2 of which were massive and will need breaking up before they can be removed – fortunately there is a bit more space to store them since clearing the rock last week. Chris filled 30 skips before swapping and Estelle took over and did a further 33 skips. The left hand side has met floor, but there is still a wet layer of mud at arms reach between ceiling of about 3inches. Ahead appears to have a bit of an arched ceiling possibly and the infill is mostly large rocks and a bit of mud. The right feels like it is also heading towards meeting floor – a lot of the very red mud coming out from that side, which is typical of the layer next to the floor.