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In message <[log in to unmask]>, Tony Oldham <[log in to unmask]> writes >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? You should have read your PDMHS "Mining History" Vol. 13 No. 3 1997 The Connection of James Hall's Over Engine Mine to Peak and Speedwell Cavern by D.A. Nixon and D. Warriner. Also try T.D. Ford 1993 Cave Science Vol. 19 No. 2 "James Plumptre's Visit to Speedwell Cavern, Castleton. Or back to the original - I. Ousby 1992 "James Plumptre's Britain: The Journals of a Tourist in the 1790's" published by Hutchinson of London, 248pp. And having helped sink the shaft into Titan - and having peered over the edge - it is a gob-smacking place. Cheers. Dave. -- David Williams