Bar Pot

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 m pitch, and through Whitehall. Bob Leakey then discovered the route from Bridge Hall to Whitehall, and Ken Horrocks discovered the passage named after him which is now the voie normale. Wild Cat Rift was explored by members of the 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, The alternative entrance of Small Mammal Pot was…

A descending passage at the base of the large rocky shakehole leads to a 13 m pitch, which is restricted at the top. Below the pitch a step down leads to the top of the Greasy Slab, a 4 m slab normally negotiated with a handline. This drops into Bridge Hall. At the bottom of the boulder slope Horrocks' Way on the left leads 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 m) 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. An alternative (and the original) route to the Big Pitch is also accessed from the bottom of…