cults

I was at Cults on Tuesday 18th April 2023 and found what must have been a quite recent roof collapse (last time I was at this entrance was October last year). A large amount of rock, several tons including large boulders was partly blocking what used to be a middle route leading off from the...

Was here just a few weeks ago but returned to look at some of the deeper areas, focusing on a fairly well preserved haulage tunnel in the older western half of the mine which runs in for about 300 yards before hitting the water table, it carries on another hundred yards or so after this. Near...

Bit of a messed up visit to Cults, Missed first train I was meant to get then had done about half the walk there when I realised I'd completely forgotten to bring a compass (very essential if going deep inside this mine). I'd planned to enter the western entrance and track across to the eastern...

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This was my eleventh visit to this place but its such a large and complex system that you could visit it twenty times and still not see every area. This is partly because of how slow movement tends to be, what with much of it being very rough uneven ground with all the waste rubble and boulders...

So I went for a little explore inside a building across from the cults mine a couple of weeks ago. I'm not sure what it was used for but assume it's there for the mines lol

This was a sort of aimless visit to brush up on being underground before visiting new sites, but was a bit different in that photography was done with a system lens for once instead of the old Olympus manual lenses I've used on other visits. I should apologise to the young couple from...

Most the deep central and nearly all eastern areas now beneath the water table, this report is mostly of areas where flooding prevents further exploration. A small bat was seen flying around briefly but it was quite far from the entrance, I've looked for roosting bats on these winter visits but...

This was a relatively short visit, about 3 hours, I'd no particular plan for this visit so just wandered eastwards from the east entrance, Cults always seems to have another section you've never seen before and I found some good areas that were completely free of string and arrows, much of the...

I was at Cults today for a quick look, the surviving western entrance is still open but there is a large heap of topsoil been dumped recently just next to the entrance, this can only be for the purpose of filling in the entrance? If anyone plans to visit they should be aware this entrance may...

I didn't realise this entrance still existed, I'd assumed it was bulldozed like some of the others but I saw a recent youtube video of a visit to it. Its the westernmost adit and was the main haulage route for the deeper pumped out sections of the mine, it ran about 700 metres straight to the...

I've made an estimate of what the total length of passages in this mine is and it appears to be about 40km/25miles. This was done using the official mine plan, using the plan scale in meters to measure roughly the majority of the passages mapped. Ive had to guess at the unmapped areas which are...

Was in Cults for about six hours yesterday, not many notable pictures taken but I did come across a remarkably large flowstone formation. you often see smaller patches of calcite in Cults but this is way bigger than anything else I've seen there. Weird looking stuff, like some sort of alien...

Went back for a longer look at this treacherous labrynth of quarry tunnels which was dug mostly to provide agricultural lime (a lot of acidic soils in Scotland). There were once many entrances to these workings but now only two are known to have survived, bizarrely some were blocked up very...

This is just a quick report on a visit to Cults since entrances were blocked, I'd not been there before and just wanted to check that it was still accessible before returning for a proper look. I found, with some difficulty, one of the remaining entrances (this is NOT an easy place to access)...