Lost Pot

Lost Pot was first mentioned by name in 1922, where it is implied that it was named by S.W. Cutriss. There were a number of attempts by various clubs since 1968 to locate a cave at the bottom of the shakehole, but it was not until the beginning of 1982 that a concerted effort by members of the Northern Pennine Club succeeded in excavating a shaft through the boulders into the passages below. The boulder slope found at the head of the first big pitch was very unstable, and it was necessary to put in a considerable amount of effort into stabilising it before a descent could be made. The cave was eventually bottomed on 18 February. Two days later the same boulder slope collapsed whilst a party…

The entrance is in a 12 m cliff-lined fenced shakehole. An excavated 9 m deep shaft in the south-west corner of the shakehole leads into a chamber, where a further excavated shaft leads down for 8 m to an unstable boulder slope above a 30 m pitch. This drops into a high rift passage which passes under a high aven where It's a Cracker enters, and past an outlet passage down which the water flows. At the end of the rift, a small passage is the way through to the top of a 23 m pitch which drops into one of the two NPC Avens at the top end of Lost Johns' Cave (Boxhead Pot enters from the second aven). The entrance to Lost Pot is currently sealed. It's a Cracker () is a second entrance situated…