Vince, Nick and Jake
The minimum required number of diggers assembled in the car park, unfortunately, Snablet did not make it. No matter, off to the cave we ventured, changed at the entrance, and then the customary warm trip to LoH&G.
I was digging at the bottom of the c.4m deep pot, Nick was at the top hauling out the spoil and ‘tossing’ the filled bags back to Jake, who was ‘catching’ the bags then dragging them along to a wider section where they were temporarily stored.
Digging is awkward and quite slow in the constricted base of the pot, but it is still going. The empty bags are damp so won’t ‘stand to attention’ making them not so easy to fill, but we persevered. The sediment consists mostly of loose to medium dense, silty, fine to coarse-grained sand with frequent inclusions of mineralized calcite fragments. The sediment is slightly moist. It is less compact than the silt/clay layers encountered when excavating higher up in the pot. At about 20:30 digging was curtailed, and the temporary stack of bags was moved along the narrow passage, up the slope, through Fuzzy Wuzzy into Colston Hall to be emptied into Pointless Pot. The empty bags were then laid out on the old spoil heap to see if they will ‘dry-out’ a little bit. We exited the cave.
Refreshments in the ravine. “Nights are drawing in!”