Saturday 5th October 2019

John Cooper, Nigel Graham, Pete Hann and Adrian Vanderplank. Nigel did 2 mixes of cement which the rest of us took down along with the capping kit. Whilst Pete used one third of the cement at the bottom I used the rest building a retaining wall where the trickle of water was washing out the mud fill part way down. Adrian then finished by capping a large conglomerate boulder at the bottom. Still more capping and cementing required. 2½ hours. John.

Saturday 28th September 2019

John Cooper, Pete Hann, Adrian Vanderplank and Jude Vanderplank. Pete took a mix of cement down. Started with Adrian capping and sending rock up to the various holes. Jude staked some clatch further down. Adrian and Pete swapped over a couple of times. Finally Pete cemented at the bottom. 3 hours. John.

Saturday 21st September 2019

John Cooper, Pete Hann, Adrian Vanderplank and Jude Vanderplank. Pete to the bottom with a mix of cement. With Jude loading, Adrian in the middle and me at the bottom stacking space we emptied the various holes. By this time Pete had finished cementing so we moved the spoil from the bottom stacking space to the top stacking space. Finally we hauled the 18 loads up to the surface. 2½ hours. John.

Saturday 14th September 2019

John Cooper, Pete Hann, Matt Randall and Adrian Vanderplank. Started with Adrian capping the floor at the bottom, passing a bucket of rocks to Pete who passed it to Matt who passed it to me. I stuffed them in the holes so they could be moved on up on another day. Finally Adrian and Pete swapped so Pete could hammer more rocks and make a final decision - to continue on down. Need to cement some boulders in place before that happens. 1½ hours. John.

Saturday 31st August 2019

John Cooper, Pete Hann and Adrian Vanderplank. Pete at the bottom digging out clatch, me above him and Adrian stacking the mud behind the walls I’d built. A final boulder moved on all the way to the surface. Now some cementing and capping required. 2 hours. John.

Saturday 17th August 2019

John Cooper and Pete Hann. Ran a survey down to the bottom. Very wet at the bottom of the entrance shaft so the planned survey back out taking lots of splays was abandoned. Used DistoX but Pete wrote readings in book. I also used a small tape recorder which revealed 3 errors in Pete’s notes. 1¼ hours. John.

Saturday 3rd August 2019

John Cooper, Pete Hann, Mike Kousiounis, Geoff Newton and Adrian Vanderplank. Capping kit taken in but not used. First moved spoil (rock) up from bottom to bottom stacking space. Then added to the heap with rocks from the alcoves part way up. Then moved on up and shifted spoil from bottom stacking space to top stacking space. Finally hauled the 21 loads to the surface. Dig now clean. 3 hours. John.