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legendrider
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"sinker" wrote:
This poor fella is still in Wrysgan. He has changed colour a few times from white to green to purple and back to a "dark gray with blue patches" type of pattern. He has bloated and lost weight a few times over the years too.

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Dropped down a dog-leg waterblast shaft onto Coldberry N Level a few years ago, halfway down was a dead sheep. It was still warm. A big part of me wanted to hoy it in the back of the Sierra and take it home for the freezer. Regrettably it just copped a whack of my right boot instead and landed on the debris cone just above the level. Theres still bits of the sceleton there yet.

MARK

festina lente[i]

Buckhill
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#62

Won't name the place;) but a working mine in Cumbria about 15 years ago. We'd run air bagging through a workplace and on into the end of the level. To try and give a bit of protection from blast damage we'd put it behind the stacked deads which were up to the roof so most of it was in a 2 foot square passageway about 40 feet long.

Still, some holes appeared, so I decided to run a new length through. Into the passageway I went and halfway along, as I slid down a slight step, I came face to face with a condom....full:curse: We'd often found our gear moved around after a weekend, despite locking up every night, but this was a new experience (and possibly for the depositor8-).

The Lone Ranger
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#63

I found 2 black bin bags full of porn magazines about 40m into an adit in the Coniston Copper Mines in about 1990. Each stash had been double bagged. Think it would have been up towards Red Dell?

Have never found the entrance since. Just remember it being a stone lined arch about a meter high and think it ran in a Westerly direction. I never did get to see what was beyond the magazines that day ::)

Life is just a Sunday stroll

pwhole
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#64

Me and my friend found a well-used condom way past daylight near the old dig in Windy Knoll cave in Castleton last year. This section is quite muddy too, so it showed some dedication to the cause considering there must be ten better places to do it between there and the car. Like - the car.

Our only other explanation was that it must be one of the old diggers missing the camaraderie of the long days dragging buckets of **** about. I do hope none are reading this. But if you are - get a room! 😉

Buckhill
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#65

Similar find at another mine about 30 years back, this one on care and maintenance. The deputy, only man working, who ran the pumps daily was a Jehovah's Witness.

Went down with him one day and he asked me to watch the main sump while he went to empty a heading round the corner. On top of the transformer was a pile of Watchtowers and Awakes - or so I thought. Under the top layer it was all Escorts, Knave, Playboy etc. Well, he had to do something while the sump emptied:)

sinker
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#66

"Buckhill" wrote:

….while the sump emptied:)

Is that a euphemism....:lol:

Yma O Hyd....

Buckhill
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5 years ago

#67

Purely unintentional, it just came out that way...... ::)

TheCret!n
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#68

"Buckhill" wrote:
Similar find at another mine about 30 years back, this one on care and maintenance. The deputy, only man working, who ran the pumps daily was a Jehovah's Witness.

Went down with him one day and he asked me to watch the main sump while he went to empty a heading round the corner. On top of the transformer was a pile of Watchtowers and Awakes - or so I thought. Under the top layer it was all Escorts, Knave, Playboy etc. Well, he had to do something while the sump emptied:)

That’s funny!

“Oh what a fun experience, my ‘Ouse is full of deviants....”

Tamarmole
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5 years ago

#69

A few years ago I went to explore Lockeridge mine on the Bere Peninsula. On the way in I stumbled upon the ubiquitous black bin bag of p0rn. Being of an inquisitive mind I took a look inside (as you do) and the vast majority was "granny p0rn" - all very weird.

royfellows
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5 years ago

#70

There's a saying in Yorkshire, ..........

My avatar is a poor likeness.

inbye
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#71

"royfellows" wrote:
There's a saying in Yorkshire, ..........

"Where there's muck, there's Bra's" 😉

Regards, John...

Huddersfield, best value for money in the country, spend a day there & it'll feel like a week........

ptpeaty
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5 years ago

#72

Whilst digging on Black Mountain near Brynamman in the 80s I found two black bin liners full of women’s clothing. The spot was about half a mile from the nearest car park. The cops were not terribly happy to retrieve the bags when we phoned them to tell of our find!

Wyn
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#73

I came across a dead owl in Lefel Newydd, Goginan years ago. Returning to the theme of otters... I had a conversation with someone from CCW (as was) in Mid Wales about the same time, who claimed they'd put in video surveillance on a bat roost in a very wet adit, only to be surprised by footage of an otter swimming in and just picking the bats off!

Roy Morton
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#74

Mike Bee who used to post on this site was out with the guys ( I couldn't make it that day) and this was the result of their finds.

When reported to the Police that day, they thought that he had found the remains of an animal.
It was then pointed out that this animal was wearing jeans and trainers.

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"You Chinese think of everything!"
"But I''m not Chinese!"
"Then you must have forgotten something!"

lozz
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5 years ago

#75

I remember that event, used to live not far away.

Lozz.

pwhole
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#76

I may as well open these items up to a wider audience - found underground but close to surface, in a mostly natural chamber clearly used more for ore-processing than actual mining, with two possible blocked connections to lower levels. They're made of wrought iron, and the central point is sharp, as though intended to be hammered into wood, but the end points are bent. The most convincing explanation was that they were stops on a windlass driving a rag-and-chain pump, and there is a flooded choked pit in the floor of the chamber, but that's hardy guaranteed proof.

Any ideas?

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Morlock
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5 years ago

#77

At first glance they look like the pointy end of some wrought iron railings?

pwhole
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#78

It's likely, though not absolutely proven, that the mine has been blocked since the early 19th Century, if not earlier, and we found these on our breakthrough trip, so we can probably discount any 'litter' from previous visitors - not that it discounts miners using some sort of external ironware in the course of their work. Puttrell and co were poking around here in the early 20th Century and didn't find this site, so we're reasonably confident they're original artifacts.

staffordshirechina
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5 years ago

#79

Phil, they do look very much like rag and chain pump staples.
There are some in the PD mining museum that are similar.

gNick
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#80

The Cret!n;D;D

Don't look so embarrassed, it's a family trait...