Pen Park Hole

Southmead, Bristol

Professor Palmer using the resistivity meter, 1956. (Photographer: Unknown) The first sod is cut, 1956. (Photographer: Unknown) Professors Palmer and Tratman digging the entrance, 1956. (Photographer: Unknown) In the Entrance Passage. (Photgrapher: Unknown) The mined adit below the entrance shaft, 1993. (Photographer: G.J. Mullan) Dog tooth calcite in the entrance passage. (Photographer: G.J. Mullan) Calcite damaged by miners in the 19th Century. (Photographer: G.J. Mullan) Where the miners were searching for lead. (Photographer: G.J. Mullan) At the head of the pitch, 1958. (Photographer: Unknown) At the pitch head, 1993. (Photographer: G.J. Mullan) At the head of the pitch, about to start climbing, 1997. (Photographer: L.J. Wilson) Climbing up into the Main Chamber, 1997. (Photographer: L.J. Wilson) Descending the main pitch. (Photographer: A. Atkinson/S.B. Cottle) The Main Chamber, from West Ledge. (Photographer: A. Atkinson/S.B. Cottle) Talking to the surface, radiolocation, 2006. (Photographer: C.J. Binding) Talking to the cavers, below. Radiolocation, 2006. (Photographer: G.J. Mullan) Climbing to the top of the Shaft. 2013. (Photographer: A. Atkinson) Uppermost Western Passage, unreachable across the shaft, 2013. (Photographer: A. Atkinson) The blockage at the original cave entrance, seen from below. (Photographer: A. Atkinson) Descending from the top of the shaft, 60 m drop below, 2013. (Photographer: A. Atkinson)
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