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rookinella
January 5th, 2008, 01:45
Visited with Nikkorn, Root, Rubby, Andyb and Gareth.

As soon as I saw the photos of this place from previous trip reports, I had to see it! This was just incredible especially the bat tunnel which was so photogenic, I nearly got over-excited. We sat in it for ages just clicking our fingers and making strange noises to hear the echoes.There is no graffiti anywhere apart from the occasional arrow and there's a surprising number of "artifacts" to look at.

Thanks everyone for another great night!

Poncy one
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Rivers of concrete where they have started to fill the mine in
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The thing bone is connected to the thingy bone....
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Old Skool crisps
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More tunnels with bat counters at the end-1 bat mwa ha ha 2 bat mwa ha ha 3!
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Big wide open passageway
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This is holding up the whole of Bath
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Root, your pointing to the map is fooling no one!
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Re-inforcements
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Extreme re-inforcements
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One for facebook
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Mmmmmmmm
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Poncy one
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With added Rook for scale
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Poncy photo
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Extreme ironing
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A very wet shaft (ooOOoo)
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Admiring the rock formations
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Some wheelie things
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