13th May 2012

After a brief visit to Hallowe’en Rift to tidy things up I decided to take another trip up into Ebbor Gorge and visit some of the small cave sites there in particular Gully Cave. The image below is either Hidden Cave or Step Cave found at the bottom of a cliff exposure opposite Tower Rock.

Further up the bank is found Gully Cave NGR ST 52548/48550 which has been the site of some recent excavation.

I could make some comments regarding the spoil disposal but will reserve my comments until another day!

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A refreshment break at the Hunter’s was due. Some rather bizarre conversations involving stuffed cobra’s, Bavarian bear inkwell’s and ‘Big Al & Snabs’ 1960’s caving expeditions to Austria, in particular Totesgebirge, these were expeditions that lead up to the BEC’s later involvement in the Dachstien in 1965. After the Hunter’s I set off for Burrington Combe and Whitcombe’s Hole.

Author: mendipgeoarch

Archaeologist, geologist, speleologist.