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Foal's Foot Potholes, North Yorkshire
Foal's Foot Potholes
county:-   North Yorkshire
locality type:-   pothole
locality type:-   cave
1Km square:-   SD7374
10Km square:-   SD77
references:-   Balderston c1890
evidence:-   descriptive text:- Balderston c1890
placename:-  Foal's Foot Potholes
source data:-   Book, Ingleton, Bygone and Present, by Robert R and Margaret Balderston, published by Simpkin, Marshall and Co, London, and by Edmndson and Co, 24 High Street, Skipton, Yorkshire, about 1890.
image BLD1P075, button  goto source
page 75:-  "..."
"... there are many funnel-shaped holes on the moorland not far above Crina Bottom. ... Lying upon the plateau, a little further to the south-west, are the Foal's Foot Potholes, and these present some interesting features."
"These holes seem to be produced by the same causes which have been at work in making very similar tremendous depressions in the ground near Ripon, the superstructure of earth having given way so as to drop into a cavity below, formed in the course of time by the chemical and mechanical action of water on the substance beneath, filling faults or breaks in the stratification of the rocky bed - a notable instance is the line of shakeholes"
image BLD1P076, button  goto source
page 76:-  "already mentioned, as intervening between Swinsto Hole and Rowantree Cave."
evidence:-   old map:- Balderston c1890 map
placename:-  Foals Foot Pot
source data:-   Map, the hills in the Ingleton area, probably by Robert R Balderston, engraved by Goodall and Suddick, Leeds, West Yorkshire, about 1890.
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BS1SD77H.jpg
"Foals Foot Pot"
item:-  private collection : 27.1
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