# Disappointment Pot

- **Country:** United Kingdom
- **Depth:** 110 m (To Hensler's Master Cave)
- **Access:** Permit
- **Length:** 500 m
- **Survey:** [http://cavemaps.org/cavePages/Gaping%20Gill__Disappointment%20Pot.htm On Cavemaps]
- **Geology:** Carboniferous limestone
- **Hazards:** water, verticality
- **Location:** Ingleborough, North Yorkshire
- **Discovery:** 1912
- **Elevation:** 395 m
- **Map Width:** 250
- **Difficulty:** IV
- **Grid Ref Uk:** SD 7505 7260
- **Photo Width:** 250
- **Photo Caption:** Negotiating the duck in Disappointment Pot
- **Entrance Count:** 3

Disappointment Pot is one of the entrances to the Gaping Gill cave system, located in a steep grassy shakehole some south-east of Gaping Gill Main Shaft. Its mainly narrow stream passage descends a number of small shafts to enter the main system as a major inlet of Hensler's Master Cave. It lies within the designated Ingleborough Site of Special Scientific Interest.

![Photo of Disappointment Pot](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/The_Portcullis_duck_in_Disappointment_Pot%2C.jpg)

**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappointment_Pot (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)