11/8/26

Estelle, Mike, Harley, Ed, Jon

1.5hrs

Jon arrived earlier and started digging before others arrived, rest of us turned up and headed down, completed the bucket filling, Harley digging in the wall in front and Estelle digging in the floor. Estelle was working on a line across the dig to try and see if possible to pick up the line of the rift from the earlier hole in the floor. Met with solid red rock on right hand side that looks like typical floor rock, but almost dead straight in front, the crowbar goes down full length when wiggled through the rock/clay. Continued digging out the rocks and mud from there and it is clearly a way down and around 18in or so deep in the floor when left. With the end dig site so big now - we all could have dug in there at once tonight! - we need to focus on getting a shelf going forwards, but also completely clearing the floor area out to see if there are more opportunities of a way down. The feel of the way on is that it may be an inlet possibly and that we may actually have a 'pot' in the floor, but we won't know whilst we've so much mud/rocks there! After all the buckets were filled, we removed them to the surface and most were dumped down the old LH dig site - aiming to get that as full as possible before any winter flooding!