Newclose Rigg Pot (Stump Grinder Pot)

Moorland Caver (2003)

NGR:SE 869894
Altitude: 200m
Length: 15m
Depth: 20m
Access: Forestry Commission
Grade: I
Entertainment Value: II

Obvious fenced entrance around a loose body sized hole (might require some gardening).
Restricted (0.6m wide) pitch of 6m to a ledge at the top of a rubble cone is free climbable but is best hand lined or laddered (preferred) and belayed to a fence post.
NW the fissure tightens and ends but SE, the rift continues (although tight) and remains unexplored.

History
Discovered by forestry commission

Tackle
10m ladder and short belay

mc-stump

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