The landing at the bottom of the pitch is on an unstable boulder ridge on the floor of a chamber measuring about 10m by 20m, on one side is what looks to be a 3m deep blind trench which has been observed to take a sizable stream in wet weather[<A href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-66" name=qC2000-204-66>C2000-204-66</A>] and on the other the chamber floor slopes away gradually, leading to the head of <B>Brians Phat shaft</B> and on the right of the chamber as one descends the slope to a short climb up a large boulder into another slightly larger chamber measuring about 25m by 12m with a fairly level boulder strewn floor. In the far left hand corner after a small climb up was a small passage with a false floor.After 10m crawl, a window was found which looked out on to the head of a 30m pitch which was descended using a deviation in the opposite wall at 3m from the head of the pitch. The pitch was mainly circular at the top, becoming more rifty as it was descended.The base of the pitch landed on a boulder floored chamber with two ways on. The route to the north was a narrow climbing rift passage leading to a choke with no way on and no leads. The route to the south and east is a shorter and wider passage with a dogleg to the left. In the left hand wall about 3m up a short climb is a small body size tube through which water could be heard. [<A href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-65" name=qC2000-204-65>C2000-204-65 B</A>] After derigging the pitch to the pitch-head the top of the pitch was descended after a short distance (4m) to a ledge which was then traversed round to the right to gain a saddle between the pitch previously descended and a large diameter pot. This was descended with difficulty due to the crap nature of the rock. The pitch enters part way down the first pitch after <B>Millenium Dome</B>. The pitch landed on a rubble floor next to a blind pit noted in the <B>White Elephant</B> description and may well be the parallel shaft [<a href="qm.shtml#C1999-204-25" name=qC1999-204-25>C1999-204-25 B</a>].
<h3>Brians phat shaft</h3>
At the bottom of the slope of the first chamber of Pleasure Dome by ducking under a drippy rock flake, a mobile boulder slope is encountered leading steeply down to the top of a large 100m shaft. The pitch was rigged with a bolt backup at the top of the slope and a Y-Hang at the pitch-head. By
a back and foot traverse to the right a small passage can be accessed which was not explored at the time[<A href="qm.shtml#C2000-204-72" name=qC2000-204-72>C2000-204-72 B</A>]. The main pitch was descended by a series of rebelays and deviations. The shaft was essentially vertical and oval in cross section belling out for the bottom 30m. Also in the bottom 30m were various
galleries with what looked like possible windows into passages although the light used was not strong enough to say whether these were ways on or just alcoves. These need further investigation by possible deviation or pendulum:
