• Source: Ease Gill Caverns

The Ease Gill Cave System is the longest, and most complex cave system in Britain as of 2011, with around 41 miles (66 km) of passages, including connections only passable by cave diving. It spans the valley between Leck Fell and Casterton Fell. The water resurges into Leck Beck.
The first-discovered entrance, Lancaster Hole, was found by George Cornes and Bill Taylor on 29 September 1946. A small draughting opening on Casterton Fell, Cumbria, opened immediately onto a 110-foot (34 m) shaft. Passages from the base of the shaft were explored over the succeeding weeks and months by members of the British Speleological Association, including Jim Eyre. The underground course of the Ease Gill (the local master cave) and high-level fossil passages above it were found and followed upstream to a series of complex inlet passages. In succeeding years, these have been connected to surface caves, including Top Sinks, County Pot and Pool Sink.
The cave passages adjoining the Ease Gill main streamway were connected to Link Pot and Pippikin Pot in 1978, and Pippikin was itself connected to Lost John's Cave by diving in 1989.
With its many entrances, the Ease Gill system offers cavers a wide variety of through trips; the Ease Gill streamway is regarded as one of the finest in the UK.




Entrances


Entrances include:

Top Sink
Pool Sink
The Borehole
Slit Sinks
Wretched Rabbit
Corner Sink
County Pot
Cow Dubs II
Cow Pot
Lancaster Hole
Link Pot
Mistral Hole
Pippikin Pot
Bull Pot of the Witches




References






Bibliography


Aspin, J.; Gemmell, A.; Jowett, A. (1952). The Caves of Upper Easegill. Northern Pennine Club, Greenclose House, Clapham, Lancaster LA2 8HW, UK.
Waltham, A.C.; Simms, M.J.; Farrant, A.R.; Goldie, H.S. (1997). Karst and Caves of Great Britain. Chapman & Hall, 2-6 Boundary Row, London SE1 8HN, UK. pp. 29–38. ISBN 0-412-78860-8.




External links


Website that contains a description of much of the Ease Gill system
Website that includes details of several caving routes in the Ease Gill System

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Ease Gill Caverns
• Three Counties System
• List of UK caving fatalities
• Jim Eyre (caver)
• List of caves in the United Kingdom
• List of caves
• Survex
• Boulder choke
• Leck Fell
• Geology of Lancashire