Well actually yes, sometimes due to phenyline phosphate from old
carbide lamps left by previous generations of cavers - this is a garlicy smell
Mixed with the sulphide or sulphate component
That smells of rotting eggs
When you are digging out a cave mouth like we were today at Thrupe lane
Then you may get splashed and then be "diggered" which means covered in mud
Other conversations were about mice or rabbits being trapped and dying and giving off a horrible smell.
The naming of caves came up
We were at hobnail hole
and Thrupe lane swallet was by us
Inside was Atlas cavern
At Wigmore cave there is a place called "don't feed the ambulance"
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