5336: Bus Stop Cave
Beranga 30T 451600 4806553 (Datum: ETRS89. Accuracy code: G) Altitude 70m
Length 80m
Area position : Logbook search
Updated 3rd, 30th September 2023
A cave in a cliff face near a bus stop. A crawl enters a low chamber which, initially, had a number of possibilities: a left hand branch which was excavated to 3m of low, draughting, calcited passage which would require a thin person to pass the next constriction; a pit in the floor chokes; a route in the roof closes down after a boulder was removed; the main way on on the right.
This can be followed for 80m of crawling on a mud floor to a mud choke. The cave runs under the railway and two FEVE trains were heard passing above during the exploration.
The cave was not first explored in 2023, as a mattock head was found towards the end of the main passage. The mud choke at the end was dug on a couple of occasions in August 2023, but progress became increasingly more difficult as calcite was met in the clay.
Site 5337 is a few metres up to the east.
Reference: anon., 2023b (Easter logbook); anon., 2023c (summer logbook)
Entrance pictures :
Underground pictures : April 2023
Video :
April 2023 (YouTube)
Detailed survey : April 2023 pdf
Line Survey :
On area survey :
Survex file : April 2023