0397: shaft
S Vega 30T 450999 4795216 (Datum: ETRS89. Accuracy code: G) Altitude 353m
Length 20m Depth 15m
Area position : Logbook search

Updated 14th May 2000; 20th November 2008

A straight 15m shaft into a 12m high and 5m wide rift that chokes in both directions. Immediately below the ladder at the far side of the passage, through a small hole in the false floor, is a chamber which chokes.

A few feet up the slope a second shaft of 8m can be descended with a further pitch of 8m, undescended, needing a bar and lump hammer to open. At the base of the second pitch a rift can followed for 5m under calcite grills to a small, choked chamber.

On a descent in the autumn of 2008, one side of the depression had slumped, making the pitch 2 metres shorter, landing on a mud pile. This may have also covered one of the holes to further depths.

[A suggestion from Easter 2000 is that the shaft is at VN51239542. The original placement was at VN51109534. Both of these are wildly out from the true position!]

References: anon., 1982 (logbook); anon., 1983a (Easter logbook); Corrin J, 1983c; anon., 1983b (logbook); anon., 2000b (Easter logbook); from 2008f (autumn logbook)
Entrance pictures : yes
Underground pictures: yes
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