Bar Pot
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Entrance shakehole of Bar Pot
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 Showing location of Bar Pot in North Yorkshire
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| Location | Ingleborough, North Yorkshire, [UK] |
| OS grid | SD 7517 7234 |
| Coordinates | 54°08′47″N 2°22′54″W / 54.1463°N 2.38157°WCoordinates: 54°08′47″N 2°22′54″W / 54.1463°N 2.38157°W |
| Depth | 104 metres (341 ft) (To South East Passage) |
| Length | 274 metres (899 ft) |
| Elevation | 395 metres (1,296 ft) |
| Discovery | 1949 |
| Geology | Carboniferous limestone |
| Entrances | 3 |
| Difficulty | III |
| Hazards | verticality |
| Access | Permit |
| Cave survey | 1980 LUSS survey on Cavemaps |
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Bar Pot is one of the entrances to the Gaping Gill cave system being located about 340 metres (370 yd) south of Gaping Gill Main Shaft, on Ingleborough in the Yorkshire Dales. It is a popular entrance into the system, being one of the easiest, driest, and having just two vertical pitches to contend with. It lies within the designated Ingleborough Site of Special Scientific Interest.
A descending passage at the base of the large rocky shakehole leads to a 13-metre (43 ft) pitch, which is restricted at the top. Below the pitch a step down leads to the top of the Greasy Slab, a 4-metre (13 ft) slab normally negotiated with a handline. This drops into Bridge Hall. At the bottom of the boulder slope Horrocks' Way on the left leads into a further set of descending chambers. At the bottom of these are the two pitches into South-East Passage of Gaping Gill. The main pitch (30 metres (98 ft)) is straight ahead and can be reached by traversing round the ledge on the left, or by crawling forward from the bottom of the slope.
An alternative (and the original) route to the Big Pitch is also accessed from the bottom of the entrance pitch. A wide bedding passage leads to the right. Across the other side a 3-metre (10 ft) climb leads to a 10-metre (33 ft) pitch. At the bottom of this a thin rift drops into a low bedding which soon enlarges and morphs into Whitehall, a high rift passage. At the bottom turn left to arrive at the back of the platform overlooking the Big Pitch.
Other passages of note:
Small Mammal Pot (54°08′46″N 2°22′52″W / 54.146176°N 2.381230°W) may be found in a patch of clints 5 metres (5 yd) from the top of the path down into the Bar Pot shakehole. A 3-metre (10 ft) climb down enters a passage which almost immediately drops down a 19-metre (62 ft) pitch into Bar Pot's Small Mammal House. Small Mammal House was named after the piles of small mammal bones found on the floor when it was first explored, so it was evident that a connection to the surface was close by.
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