INCIDENT 36/2023 MAY 27th SAT. 11.30 NEWBY MOSS, CLAPHAM-CUM-NEWBY, NORTH YORKSHIRE. ANIMAL INCIDENT

a) CAVE HOLE (BOGGARTS ROARING HOLES area) Two team members, walking from Ingleton to Gaping Gill, found that a sheep was stranded about 10m down in Cave Hole. Re-inforcements were called. A team member abseiled in and wrestled the sheep into a flight bag before it was hauled to the surface and released, a little stiff, but not seriously harmed. b) FIFE POT (GREY SCARS area) Cavers had also heard…

INCIDENT 61/2022 AUG. 7th SUN. 15.52 FIFE POT, NEWBY MOSS, NORTH YORKSHIRE – ANIMAL INCIDENT

A group of walkers told the farmer at Newby Cote that they had ‘heard a lamb stuck down Fife Pot and it sounded to be in distress.’. North Yorkshire Police passed the message on and a small team drove up to Newby Moss in the Honda Pioneer. Meanwhile, the lamb had gone quiet but was soon found, hauled to the surface and released, apparently unharmed, onto the fell. Volunteer hours: …