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A nice little solo trip to this mine south of Bristol, getting out of the heat of the day and in to the cool.
Sandford Levvy is a horizontal adit. 450m long, running south into the hill. Two crossroads provide short but interesting detours and some difficult climbing in excavated upward extensions, In 1830, a Mr. Webster, dug the adit in an attempt to locate a worthwhile ore body. A find of galena was reported and small veins of blende can still be found.
The above info is from Aditnow.
This was also my first time doing a solo SRT, that was a rush and a half, only a drop of 50-60 feet but my first time putting the practice and theory to good use (It`s amazing what you can learn from YouTube).
Anyway enough babble - picture time.
At the far end of the mine is a massive "flow stone" formation.
The wet bit......
With a bit of a struggle to get up in too this tight stoopy passage, it went a lot further than I thought.
One of the cross passages has a big old drop at the end.
Then a view from the bottom looking back up.
Well that`s it for now.
Thanks for looking, all comments are most welcome.
There are a few more pictures on my FlickR site so head over too:-
https://www.flickr.com/photos/newage2/albums/72157715414936336
Cheers Newage
(one last picture)
Cheers
A nice little solo trip to this mine south of Bristol, getting out of the heat of the day and in to the cool.
Sandford Levvy is a horizontal adit. 450m long, running south into the hill. Two crossroads provide short but interesting detours and some difficult climbing in excavated upward extensions, In 1830, a Mr. Webster, dug the adit in an attempt to locate a worthwhile ore body. A find of galena was reported and small veins of blende can still be found.
The above info is from Aditnow.
This was also my first time doing a solo SRT, that was a rush and a half, only a drop of 50-60 feet but my first time putting the practice and theory to good use (It`s amazing what you can learn from YouTube).
Anyway enough babble - picture time.
At the far end of the mine is a massive "flow stone" formation.
The wet bit......
With a bit of a struggle to get up in too this tight stoopy passage, it went a lot further than I thought.
One of the cross passages has a big old drop at the end.
Then a view from the bottom looking back up.
Well that`s it for now.
Thanks for looking, all comments are most welcome.
There are a few more pictures on my FlickR site so head over too:-
https://www.flickr.com/photos/newage2/albums/72157715414936336
Cheers Newage
(one last picture)
Cheers
