Dropped down the first pitch to explore the upstream sump that Chris had reported drained on his trip on Tues. We surveyed through the low but dry passage coming across a canal which then led through to an aven chamber. We dug out the way on underneath exploring another 20m of passage until it finished in a small standing height "chamber" down a small drop, blocked with rocks. Back in the aven chamber we used combined tactics with me on top and I managed to climb up onto a ledge 7m up. This excitingly had a stooping passage leading off, which unfortunately turned out to be known passage and I was soon in the main streamway in Pegleg (Entered where the large kern is, at station 8 upstream of the large rock). We had managed to connect what's normally a flooded well, down the 7m pitch beyond suprise hall to the bottom of the 15m pitch, you normally traverse over.