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into a further set of descending chambers. At the bottom of these are the two pitches into South-East
Passage of Gaping Gill. The main pitch (30 metres (98 ft)) is straight ahead and can be reached by traversing round the ledge on the left, or by crawling forward from the bottom of the slope.
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An alternative (and the original) route to the Big Pitch is also accessed from the bottom of the entrance pitch. A wide bedding passage leads to the right. Across the other side a 3-metre (10 ft) climb leads to a 10-metre (33 ft) pitch. At the bottom of this a thin rift drops into a low
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leads to a 13-metre (43 ft) pitch, which is restricted at the top. Below the pitch a step down leads to the top of the Greasy Slab, a 4-metre (13 ft) slab normally negotiated with a handline. This drops into Bridge Hall. At the bottom of the boulder slope
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Northern Cave Club from below in 1969. Small Mammal House and the Graveyard Inlet was discovered by members of Lancaster University Speleological Society in the late 1970s, and Violet Ground Beetle Passage was first entered by John Cordingley in 1993.
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submitted a planning application to develop Bar Pot for adventure caving tourist trips. The plans included setting up scaffolding structures supporting ladders for the two pitches, but the application was withdrawn after objections were voiced by a number of interested parties including the
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The cave was first entered in 1949 by members of the
British Speleological Association, who moved a few boulders at the bottom of the shakehole. The original route to the Big Pitch was through the bedding below the entrance pitch, down the 10-metre (33 ft) pitch, and through Whitehall.
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A passage across from the Big Pitch on the left leads to an alternative descent down South-East Aven, and also to Wild Cat Rift, a passage which descends to the hole in the wall opposite the bottom of the Big
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when he fell down the entrance pitch whilst rigging it. In 1980 Lancaster
University Speleological Society published a comprehensive survey of the cave. In 1987 the management of
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