We collected 100s of tea lights mainly from a couple of locations. It is quite a mystery why people who care about the cranes leave so much **** around. To get the best photo the photographers spend ages placing tea lights all over an area, but they do not care enough to collect
their rubbish. Sad. In addition to tea lights we collected sweet papers, cans of fizzy drinks, beer and red bull.
We entered backdoor (now recently cleaned again) we did not take a left turn through the dodgy boulders to AO route but skirted along the route over deads toward OXO route (my usual route to cathedral) and continued over the deads to go along to the side of the dodgy boulder collapse
Brian found the remains of an old rail that had been split off under wear. Initially we were not convinced but he
showed us other more obvious rails that were showing signs of wear and were about to split off bits. Apparrently this is a running discussion/argument with Buxus
The remains of a points switch plate
A chip - Brian was most pleased with this find. The best preserved example of a chip he had seen.
A hollow shell of a pit prop
Vote for Borwick - less hours more money - cheaper beer
Very hard stone - just like the sping
A modern brognail - apparently this was not hand made but manufactured - it is straighter and had a small nobble at the back of its head.
A modern choghole - showing signs of having been made with stitch drilling (compressed air driven drill). Notice the lewis pin hole next to the chog hole used to put up the crane
More prominent examples of stitch drilling
A jadding iron
Caver turned quarry explorer