survey MuddyLink8
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#Cave:Poulnagollum
#Survey Name:
#Description:POLLNAGOLUM - THE MUDDY LINK
#
#Location: The County Clare
#Country:Rep of Ireland
#People - 
#Date:8/7/58
#Instrument Set:
#Calibration:
#Typed in by Simon Flower on
#Adjusted for computing by Andrew Atkinson, 2001 
#Source: UBSS 1958-I {red circled A in top right hand corner}
#The Middland Series Excercise Book 
#
data normal from to bearing length ignoreall
units tape feet
#measurements all 
#Page 8
#All bearings are maaagnetic =.The bearing and distance
#shown against a given station are thise taken from the
#previous station to that given station.
#NB First column added for computing.
#Station 0 (zero) is at the entrance to Gunman's cave.
#
#0		
0	1	135	28.5	Entrance to Gunman's cave
1	2	49	9	Entrance to stream tributary passage on left 		
#				(looking down on Gunmans cave)
2	3	12	6.5	[PICTURE] The Muddy Link rises very gently here
#				(and until further notice to station 10) at less
#				than 5 degrees, since the roof is in the same
#				bed throughout its length
#
#Page 9
#
3	4	76	10	[PICTURE] Floor of mud and gravel
4	5	78	13	
5	6	0	14	Passage goes off to the left. this passage
#				continues for at least 100', with its dried
#				mud floor gradually piling up towards the roof.
6	7	36	18.5	[PICTURE]
7	8	345	21	[PICTURE]
8	9	354	28.5	[PICTURE] There is here a passage to the left, of
#				much the same section as the Muddy Link Passage
#				at this point, but looking rather less muddy.
#				It was not explored
#
#Page 10
#
9	10	70	29.5	[PICTURE] The Muddy Link is here about to emerge
#				into Branch Passage Gallery. See section of BPG
#				below
#NB this last station had 1 taken off instead of 0.5
10	11	105	6	Boulder floor falling away shortly - see opposite
#				[PICTURE]
11	12	54	39.5	Station on right hand wall of Branch Passage
#				Gallery (looking upstream)
12	23	165	15.25 	station 12 to 23 of BPG survey 1957
#
#Page 11
#
#"Section of Branch Passage gallery where Muddy Link Emerges" [PICTURE]
#
#Note: Diary p4 5/7/58 refers to explorations of "passage off the crawl" which 
#lead for 120 ft back to the surface which was blocked.
#This entry was obscure. Location of passage not definite enough. ...rewritten 
#more fully and clearly.
#

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