The following might be a better link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/derby/content/articles/2006/11/07/titan_cave_video_feature.shtml
What interested me was:
“Dave Nixon examined an old journal written more than 200 years ago by a
Cambridge student exploring old mine works nearby.
James Plumtree described a network of caves which went further than
Leviathan, a well-known cave system near Castleton.”
Anybody got the reference?
Cheers - Tony Oldham
Duncavin
1 Riverside Mews
CARDIGAN
SA43 1DH
United Kingdom
http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/~arb/speleo/guides.html
http://www.showcaves.com
http://www.mike.munro.cwc.net/mining/tony_o/tonyo_hp.htm
http://www.showcaves.com/foreign/Big/F003-003.jpg
>From: david hardwick <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: "The mining-history list." <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Trans : Fw: [speleos-fr] La g rotte la plus profonde jamais
>trouvée en Angleterre découverte
>Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 09:02:07 -0000
>
>Good to see the French media is as accurate as ours!!
>
>The Titan shaft was first entered several years ago - Recently discovered
>in
>geological terms perhaps!!
>
>Mind you if you look at the BBC website
>http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2006/11_november/06/c
>ave.shtml
>that says it's "the UK's biggest cave" which is also wrong !!
>
>I also like
>"Dave Nixon, ... leading underground explorer." (bet Dave likes that!)
>".. the biggest underground discovery ever." (ever been to Mexico?)
>"..relatively small number of expert cavers who knew of its existence."
>(and
>I thought Descent was a national magazine!!)
>
>None of this has anything to do with mining other than to raise the
>question
>in my mind as to whether the media reporting on events such as mining
>disasters etc is more accurate now or worse!!
>
>Ah but if it's in the paper it must be true ..........
>
>Dave
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: mining-history [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>[log in to unmask]
>Sent: 08 November 2006 07:54
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: [MINING-HISTORY] Trans : Fw: [speleos-fr] La grotte la plus
>profonde jamais trouvée en Angleterre découverte
>
>The deepest cave of UK recently discovered !
> >
> > Mardi 07 novembre 2006
> >
> >
> >
>http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20061107/CPSCIENCES/611071034/5144/CPSCIEN
>CES
> > La grotte la plus profonde jamais trouvée en Angleterre découverte
> >
> >
> > Agence France-Presse
> > Londres
> >
> >
> >
> >
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