SubBrit is pleased to announce the fifth - In The Dark Webcast.
Starring – Ed Waters
Title - Discovery and Rediscovery in the Caves and Mines of Sandford Hill
Date – 09 July 2020
Time - 1830
Registration – https://www.bigmarker.com/subbrit/in-the-dark-discovery-and-rediscovery-in-the-caves-and-mines-of-sandford-hill 12
Sub Brit and Mendip Caving Group member Ed Waters will describe the efforts to explore the interconnected lead mines and natural caves of Sandford Hill which lies within the Mendip Hills of Somerset. The Webinar will cover over 15 years of tough exploration, including digging out fill from narrow passages and an 80ft (24m) shaft. These efforts have led to the discovery of extensive previously unrecorded mine workings and caves not seen since the miners were last here in the 18th Century. Given the lack of written records, such exploration is the only way to study these mines and a great deal of knowledge has been gained by this work. However, we have still to shed light on a 19th Century legend or to realise the hoped for “through trip” from the top to the bottom of the hill, though it is tantalisingly close.
