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30 m
Wall
Roman
Chamber
Entrance
Archaeological dig
The Dome
Stream sinks
(Derbyshire River Wye)
Constant
Drip
Steps
Flitch of
Bacon
Flitch of
Bacon
Rimstone
pools
Stream
Rimstone
pools
Font
Helictites
Font
The Cat
Bridge
Poached Egg Chamber
Poached Egg Chamber
The Big Drip
The Big Drip
Flowstone
Cascades
Flowstone
Cascades
Stream
appears
Stream
appears
The Boulder
Choke
Mary Queen
of Scots Pillar
Mary Queen
of Scots Pillar
Stepping
Stones
Coloured Flowstone
and The Sculpture
Stepping
Stones
Figure 8.1
Plan of Poole's Cavern, Buxton.
Source:
After Allsop (1992)
placed in it with calcite and 'turn them to stone'. The 'Constant Drip' is a stalagmite that has grown over thousands
of years, but, perhaps owing to an increased drip rate over recent years, it now has a hole drilled in it. Nearby is a new
white flowstone formation that is made by water passing through old lime-tips on the hillside above. Further along
hangs the largest stalactite in the cave - the 'Flitch of Bacon', so called owing to its resemblance to a half-side of that
meat. It is almost 2 m long, but was longer before some vandalous visitor broke off the bottom section around 1840.
Nearby, on the cave floor, are rimstone pools. The next chamber is the 'Poached Egg Chamber', which contains
