Long Kin East - Rift Pot System | |
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![]() A caver descending the entrance pitch of Rift Pot | |
Location | Ingleborough, North Yorkshire, England |
OS grid | SD 7624 7307 |
Coordinates | 54°09′11″N 2°21′55″W / 54.152966°N 2.365236°W |
Depth | 116 metres (381 ft) [1] |
Length | 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) [1] |
Elevation | 411 metres (1,348 ft)[1] |
Discovery | 1904 |
Geology | Carboniferous limestone |
Entrances | 5 |
Hazards | verticality, water, boulders[1] |
Access | Booking required |
Cave survey | On Cave Mapper |
The Long Kin East Cave - Rift Pot system is a limestone cave system on the southern flanks of Ingleborough, North Yorkshire in England lying within the designated Ingleborough Site of Special Scientific Interest.[2] Long Kin East Cave starts as a long meandering stream passage but then plummets down a 58-metre (190 ft) deep shaft when it meets a shattered fault into which Rift Pot also descends. At the bottom, the stream flows through some low canals and sumps, to eventually emerge at Austwick Beck Head in Crummackdale.