Jingling Pot
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| Location | West Kingsdale, North Yorkshire, UK |
| OS grid | SD 69896 78369 |
| Coordinates | 54°12′01″N 2°27′46″W / 54.200249°N 2.462821°W |
| Depth | 67 metres (220 ft) |
| Length | 61 metres (200 ft) |
| Discovery | 1867 |
| Geology | Carboniferous Limestone |
| Entrances | 1 |
| Hazards | Verticality |
| Access | Free |
| Cave survey | cavemaps.org |
Jingling Pot is a limestone cave in West Kingsdale, North Yorkshire, England. Located adjacent to Jingling Beck, it is a lenticular-shaped 45-metre (148 ft) deep shaft that descends straight from the surface. At the bottom the rift extends to the north and descends steeply into a further chamber, at the end of which the initials of the original explorers may be seen scratched into the rock. A narrow shaft in this second chamber drops into a complex of small crawls and rifts, which approach close to a passage in the One-armed Bandit Series of Aquamole Pot. A second set of shafts descend parallel to the surface shaft. These can be entered through a rock window a little way below the entrance.[1]
Jingling Pot is a karst cave formed within the Great Scar Limestone Group of the Visean Stage of the Carboniferous Period, laid down about 335 Ma. It is formed on what is thought to be a strike-slip fault with minimal displacement by the waters of Jingling Beck, which now bypass the entrance except in exceptionally wet weather. The water probably originally flowed through to the One-armed Bandit Series in Aquamole Pot, and thence down to the West Kingsdale main drain.[2][3]
Jingling Cave
A few metres to the north-west of Jingling Pot, the water of Jingling Beck sink into Jingling Cave. Jingling Cave is about 375-metre (1,230 ft) long. Initially low, and requiring crawling, it gradually increases in height, passing under a couple of windows where the roof has collapsed. After a damp 3 metres (9.8 ft) climb down, the passage enters the much larger Rowten Caves.[1]