ITV Secret Underground
The Secret Underground Series is back. At the end of last year Gavin Newman filmed the BEC diggers in action in Rose Cottage Cave.
This is going to be broadcast in a series of 4 weekly programs starting Thursday 23rd February.
Read on for more details
Loxton Cavern
article coutesy of Chris Binding (CSCC C&A)
The successful cave discoverers/explorers Nick and Nick of the BEC kindly led a Leaders' Induction Day at Loxton Cavern on Saturday 7th January, organised by CSCC, for club leaders to this relatively recent Mendip discovery.
Since the cave was originally intercepted by miners back in the C18th it contains evidence of their endeavors and these take the form of tally marks, scratched drawings, knee imprints, boot imprints, soot marks & graffiti, 200 year old boots in situ, evidence of stal removal, pick marks etc., all of which require careful appreciation so as to avoid obliterating or muddying over by unaware cavers - hence the leaders' induction trip pointing out their various locations, and advice for moving around the looser sections.
