397 Shaft
South Vega VN51109534 Alt. 388m  Length 20m Depth 15m

Updated 14th May 2000

A straight 15m shaft into a 12m high and 5m wide rift that chokes in both directions. Immediately below the ladder at the far side of the passage, through a small hole in the false floor, is a chamber which chokes.

A few feet up the slope a second shaft of 8m can be descended with a further pitch of 8m, undescended, needing a bar and lump hammer to open. At the base of the second pitch a rift can followed for 5m under calcite grills to a small, choked chamber.

A suggestion from Easter 2000 is that the shaft is at VN51239542.

References: anon., 1982 (logbook); anon., 1983a (Easter logbook); Corrin J, 1983c; anon., 1983b (logbook); anon., 2000b (Easter logbook)
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