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succeeded in excavating a shaft through the boulders into the passages below. The boulder slope found at the head of the first big pitch was very unstable, and it was necessary to put in a considerable amount of effort into stabilising it before a descent could be made. The cave was eventually
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Lost Pot was first mentioned by name in 1922, where it is implied that it was named by S.W. Cutriss. There were a number of attempts by various clubs since 1968 to locate a cave at the bottom of the shakehole, but it was not until the beginning of 1982 that a concerted effort by members of the
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Head spring in Ease Gill. The current outlet at the base of Lost Pot is small, but there are a series of abandoned phreatic passages, called the Tate
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period. Its development has been largely determined by a vertical
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glaciation, and were originally drained by those passages.
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533:Eyre, Jim; Frankland, John (1988).
574:Caves of the Three Counties System
514:Shaw, Chester (1982). "Lost Pot".
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135:about 80 metres (260 ft)
175:verticality, loose boulders
16:Cave in Lancashire, England
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493:"The Leck Fell Pot-Holes"
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360:Cave Rescue Organisation
127:105 metres (344 ft)
159:Carboniferous limestone
491:Cutriss, S.W. (1922).
466:Waltham, A.C. (1974).
282:54.199942°N 2.505346°W
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306:Geology and hydrology
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238:Description
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87:Coordinates
80:SD 67097841
563:Categories
477:0715361813
452:0412788608
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374:References
314:formed in
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212:Lancashire
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370:in 2012.
342:Devensian
337:Leck Beck
322:from the
320:limestone
272:2°30′19″W
208:Leck Fell
164:Entrances
148:Discovery
140:Elevation
99:2°30′21″W
59:Leck Fell
204:Lost Pot
196:cavemaps
55:Location
24:Lost Pot
550:Descent
428:Descent
388:Descent
348:History
228:Cumbria
216:England
172:Hazards
156:Geology
74:OS grid
67:England
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180:Access
132:Length
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407:ISBN
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