| Rod's Pot | |
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 Rod's Pot entrance | |
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| Location | Burrington Combe, Somerset, UK |
| OS grid | ST 47215845 |
| Coordinates | 51°19′22″N 2°45′32″W / 51.32269°N 2.75896°W |
| Depth | 45 metres (148 ft) |
| Length | 188 metres (617 ft) |
| Geology | Limestone |
| Entrances | 2 (Bath Swallet) |
| Access | Free |
| Registry | Mendip Cave Registry[1] |
Rod's Pot is a limestone cave above Burrington Combe in the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England.
The cave was first excavated in 1944 by the University of Bristol Spelæological Society.[2] It is one of a line of swallets marking the junction of the Limestone shales with the Carboniferous Limestones where water running off the Old Red Sandstone of Blackdown finds its way underground.[3] Further excavation has now linked Rod's Pot to nearby Bath Swallet.
The cave was originally known as Pearce's Pot after Rodney Pearce.[4]
- ^ "Rod's Pot". Mendip Cave Registry & Archive. Retrieved 30 March 2012.
- ^ Halliwell, Ric. "A Century of British Caving". Craven Pothole Club. Retrieved 15 October 2007.
- ^ Pearce, Dr.R.A.J. (1948). "Rod's Pot". In Balch, H.E. (ed.). Mendip - Its Swallet Caves and Rock Shelters (2nd ed.). Bristol: John Wright & Sons Ltd. pp. 93–96.
- ^ Witcombe, Richard (2009). Who was Aveline anyway?: Mendip's Cave Names Explained (2nd ed.). Priddy: Wessex Cave Club. p. 149. ISBN 978-0-9500433-6-4.