Lost Pot
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| Location | Leck Fell, Lancashire, England |
| OS grid | SD 67097841 |
| Coordinates | 54°12′01″N 2°30′21″W / 54.200351°N 2.505841°WCoordinates: 54°12′01″N 2°30′21″W / 54.200351°N 2.505841°W |
| Depth | 105 metres (344 ft) |
| Length | about 80 metres (260 ft) |
| Elevation | 360 metres (1,180 ft) |
| Discovery | 1982 |
| Geology | Carboniferous limestone |
| Entrances | 2 |
| Hazards | verticality, loose boulders |
| Access | CNCC Permit |
| Cave survey | cavemaps |
Lost Pot is a cave on Leck Fell, in Lancashire, England. It leads into the top end of Lost Johns' Cave, and is part of the Three Counties System, an 87 kilometres (54 mi) cave system which spans the borders of Cumbria, Lancashire, and North Yorkshire.
The entrance is in a 12-metre (39 ft) cliff-lined fenced shakehole. An excavated 9-metre (30 ft) deep shaft in the south-west corner of the shakehole leads into a chamber, where a further excavated shaft leads down for 8 metres (26 ft) to an unstable boulder slope above a 30 metres (98 ft) pitch. This drops into a high rift passage which passes under a high aven where It's a Cracker enters, and past an outlet passage down which the water flows. At the end of the rift, a small passage is the way through to the top of a 23 metres (75 ft) pitch which drops into one of the two NPC Avens at the top end of Lost Johns' Cave (Boxhead Pot enters from the second aven). The entrance to Lost Pot is currently sealed.
It's a Cracker (54°12′00″N 2°30′19″W / 54.199942°N 2.505346°W) is a second entrance situated in a shakehole about 50 metres (160 ft) south-west of Lost Pot. A 10-metre (33 ft) deep excavated shaft enters a small chamber with an inlet. Downstream, a few metres of awkward passage leads to the top of the 32-metre (105 ft) deep Paparazzi Pitch. This lands at the head of a small cascade, at the base of which is a platform overlooking the 36 metres (118 ft) Park Bench Pitch. This drops into the large rift below the first pitch of Lost Pot.
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