If you found this entrance to a cave in the garden of your new house would you go in?
(So are you an intrepid person?)
You bet, with a good torch and a screwdriver for poking at things.
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I would, definitely! With a good torch and a buddy holding the other end of a rope waiting at the cave mouth.
Did you? Pics please!
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Oh, and my Swiss Army knife!
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Absolutely!
If you need any help let me know. My son-in-law is an experienced caver - and he leads a cave rescue team…
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I’ll add my voice to those who would definitely go in!
The entrance looks pretty solid, so as long as it wasn’t raining I would certainly start. How far I would go depends on what I find. With a torch and someone to hand on the outside just in case.
Some friends of mine in Gironde have a cave like that at the base of the rocky spur on which their house sits and it turned out to be some sort of prehistoric site but no drawings or carvings but maybe some bones, possibly human but also other. It didn’t go anywhere although it looked as if it could be a tunnel. Anyway there’s a gate on it now.
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That looks like a job for a grimy Victorian street urchin.
Can never find one when you need ‘em these days…
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We may need his number!
We will go in - just need to unpack a few boxes first for the house move, give it a week.
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Don’t forget your whip in case those big balls start to roll towards you Indy.
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Oooo errr missus 
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We have a small “tunnel” entrance in our cellar… it’s only a short run nowadays… but it used to go from under buildings which are now our house… to a medieval chateau down in the valley…
The tunnel lay hidden and forgotten until roadworks dug down, down, deeper and down… came across the tunnel … and then broke the link… 
A neighbour, who is 86, can recall when she was too young and timid to go exploring via the cellar entrance, but some of the older kids did… and they (presumably) came back out OK… as she doesn’t recall any horror stories (unless she’s blotted them out … 
)
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That’s so cool, real famous five stuff
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Definitely give it a go, but looking at the ivy leaves it might be a bit tight🙄
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Ooo I loved the famous five. Maybe it is not allowed now? Pity as it was really fun to read when young. I eould defogo in there but would take our big German Shepherd to be at my side
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Just watch out there isn’t a 100ft hole just in the entranceway O look it goes all the way back th eeeeeeeeeeeeer
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I re-read some of my childhood books recently and was horrified at how sexist and often racist they were! Boys were boys, and did boy stuff, and girls were girls and were very occasionally were allowed to do boy stuff too but very much as second class citizens.