Being below a dry river bed, the cave can be prone to flooding in wet weather.

We were not too pleased to find that we had been given some unsolicited help with the project by a couple or so volunteers, who had dug down our choke, entered the adit and from there the new phreatic series.

Little detective work was necessary to discover the names of the poachers who claimed, of course, that our dig had been abandoned.

are now digging above what is thought to be the old Dyer's Adit.... attempting to open a silted natural passage at which it is believed there is a draught'.

Remains of the old gate are in place and the cave is no longer locked, but the name has stuck.