Acts as flood overflow for vallay phreas. Dye test performed with river water pumped into hole left after a bounce weak weak

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Bouncing Field, Charlotte's Estavelle


NGR: SO 27154 03736
180 m.asl

Torfaen , Northern Outcrop - East (Morlais to Abergavenny)
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Estavelle
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Description In wet weather the lower end of the field sometimes bounces with water being forced up to form a 'grass water-bed'...
History
Hydrology Acts as flood overflow for vallay phreas. Dye test performed with river water pumped into hole left after a bounce Tests Tests
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© C Richards
2020
Survey
References
BrynmawrCC Jnl.1996. Bill Gascoine, Dye tracing in Ogof Draenen
Caves & Caving 69, pp.19-21, Bill Gascoine, Dye traces in Ogof Draenen
Simms MJ, Farrant AR, 2011. Landscape evolution in southeast Wales: evidence from aquifer geometry and surface topography associated with the Ogof Draenen cave system. Cave and Karst Science, 38(1),pp.7-16
UKCaving forum, 2017
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