EuroSpeleo 2016
Peak District Round-Up
Oral|Mr Simon Brooks
Abstract
The Peak District that predominantly lies within the Counties of Derbyshire and Staffordshire is one of Britain’s oldest National Parks, famous for its stunning limestone and gritstone landscapes. Within what is essentially a Limestone Plateau there are many fine caves with documentation of these extending back to the 16th Century.
Lead miners, also known as ‘t’owd man, who were very active in the Peak District had knowledge of many of the more well know caves, particularly where these had been intersected by Lead Mines.
With some of the more notable cave discoveries taking place from the late 1920’s onwards the casual observer could be forgiven for thinking that most of ‘what could be found, has been found’. However, ongoing exploration is still very active within the Peak district and particularly in the last 10 years there have been some significant discoveries.
This lecture gives an overview of the landscapes of the Peak District, the Geology and the Caves. Outlining significant milestones in discovery from 1926 onwards, focusing on the finds of the last 10 years the latest caving activities, digs and discoveries in the Peak District during 2015 – 2016.
Access and Gating are always controversial topics and in respect of the latter the Peak District has some very fine examples.
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Oral|Mr Gavin Newman
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Field|Mr Mike Bedford
Demonstration of Electronic Equipment for Caving
Oral|Mr Vanyo Gyorev
The Unexplored - documentary film
Oral|Mr . Wookey
Caving and climate change
Oral|Dr Rostam Namaghi
A brief (fictional) history of Speleomusic
Oral|Mr Juan Corrin
Matienzo Caves Project - 56 years of expedition caving
Oral|Mrs Alena Gessert
Čertova diera (Devil`s hole) – a part of the Domica-Baradla cave system (Slovakia)
Film|Mr A & A Freem
Caver's Cinema & Video Salon - Tuesday
Oral|Dr Helen Hooper
Looking seriously at the social landscape of casual leisure: Caving with older rural females in North Yorkshire
Oral|Ms Aileen Brown
The Caves of the Kosua - Exploring the Darai Plateau in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, December 2015 – January 2016