0045: Humo, Cueva del (west entrance)
Seldesuto 30T 448950 4795074 (Datum: ETRS89. Accuracy code: G) Altitude 274m
Length 90m Depth 40m
Area position : Logbook search

Updated 6th May 2000; 20th December 2008; 12th September 2014; 11th September 2023

A small entrance slopes down into a chamber with a squeeze into a well decorated passage which slopes steeply down to the base of an open shaft. (The shaft is site 5388.)

The cave was probably used during the Civil War, and the lower passage has been tunnelled (to provide an exit?) with the rusting pick-axe still to be seen at its end.

The site was re-explored in the summer 2023. (Photos?)

References: Corrin J S and Smith P, 1981; anon., 1989 (logbook); Smith Peter, 2012 (survey and photo); material in file; anon., 2023c (summer logbook)
Entrance picture : yes
Underground picture(s): decaying pickaxe  shaft entrance  formations 1  2  3  4
Detailed Survey : 1:1000
Line Survey :
On area survey :
Survex file : yes (Coordinates altered to fit new entrance GPS grid reference.)

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