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Marble Pot, North Yorkshire
Marble Pot
county:-   North Yorkshire
locality type:-   cave
coordinates:-   SD759730
1Km square:-   SD7573
10Km square:-   SD77
SummaryText:-   Grade II, beware severe flooding; permission, Ingham and Yorke, Littlemoor, Clitheroe.
SummaryText:-   Explored by Yorkshire Ramblers Club, 1905.
references:-   Brook, A & Brook, D & Davies, G M &Long, M H: 1975: Northern Caves, vol.3 Ingleborough: Dalesman Books (Clapham, North Yorkshire):: ISBN 0 85206 312 1

evidence:-   descriptive text:- Balderston c1890
placename:-  Marble Pot
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 BLD1P052, button  goto source
page 52:-  "..."
"There is a small sike to the west [of Long Kin Cave], and this finds its way through a rocky fissure in the black marble, in the form of broken cascades, into a cavern-like gulf, that must not be mistaken for any of the places just described, but is still sufficiently interesting as to deserve some passing notice."
"Marble Pot."
"A little nearer the long allotment wall is a large shakehole, measuring eighty feet down the shortest slope; on the north-eastern side a stream enters with rapid descent, and forms a fall twelve feet in height. At the bottom is the mouth of a grand pot-hole, forty-three feet deep, with waterfall entering it of corresponding height. In fine weather the water supply is small. The rocks are of marble, in some places highly polished."

evidence:-   old map:- Balderston c1890 map
placename:-  Marble 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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BS1SD77L.jpg
"Marble Pot"
item:-  private collection : 27.1
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