From the wide overhanging entrance, a short crawl leads onto an 8 metres (26 ft) dry shaft.

[2][3] In Fault Chamber, an easy climb up the eastern rift reaches a small window, that can be forced to an 8 metres (26 ft) pitch that drops into an independent streamway - High Stream Passage.

Downstream leads into High Stream Chamber where the water sinks in boulders to emerge from the impenetrable fissure mentioned above.

Upstream, 100 metres (330 ft) of decorated passage ends in a mineralised choke on a fault in the area of Humble Pot.

The challenge was then picked up by members of the Gritstone Club in 1965, who succeeded in digging down a little further to expose a tight crawl which proved to be the breakthrough point into the main cave.

[10][11] Short Long Drop was dug into and explored by members of the Red Rose Cave & Pothole Club in 2007.