1/4/25

 report from Mike Moxon

Mike had a live herald moth in his suit at start, he headed in and dug the slump from aven on right (he and Matilda also climbed up - it's now mostly solid roof with a few, sort of, mud formations). She moved all 34 buckets back to the first haul, whilst James dug the way forward. Fortunately Fran arrived in time for the second haul, so we could get tubs out to Stu at the entrance. 7 bags had 2 loads put in them & need topping up next week, rest was dumped quite easily, with minimal scraping required. Dead duck was removed from below entrance. Met Estelle and Duncan in waldegrave.

25/3/25

Estelle Sandford, Mike Moxon, Dave Walker, Matilda Doel, Stu Lindsay, Fran Campbell, Ed Ford

1.5hrs

No sign of any water level at the end, but the layer of flood slurry, plus the slump is going to need a fair bit of work to clear. Estelle & Matilda filled all available buckets, think it's 34, with a mixture of slurry from the end chamber and slump from the aven and these were transported out of the cave and emptied into bags and spoil heap. Waldy afterwards. 

Winter consolidated update

15/12/24 still flooded to top haul

Weather over the winter months has been fairly consistently wet, so no visits were undertaken as it was assumed the dig would still be flooded. 

11/3/25 Report from Mike

Me, Matilda, Stuart, Callum bisley, Ed and Kat found it was still flooded just above the conveyor belt. We removed 17 buckets of slumping / sludge from along the passageway, 1 big frog and a toad. Left 12 or 13 buckets on shelf down near the water. Callum had a look around the other bit of the cave. Then went to join James, Estelle and holly at the waldegrave (photos Kat and Mike)

20/3/25 Mike visited the dig - just a pool over the drainage hole and slump from aven on right, so is now diggable. 

Hopefully this means digging can resume on a regular basis if the weather remains dryer. 

19/11/24 flooded again

Report from Mike
End was flooded just over Welly height, so James, Jon, Matilda and I moved about 15 loads of rock back to entrance.