0663: Contrabandistas, Cueva
Seldesuto 30T 449307 4793831 (Datum: ETRS89. Accuracy code: G) Altitude 558m
Length 50m+ Depth 15m
Area position : Site entrance in context : Logbook search

Updated 30th August 1998; 21st January 2001; 20th December 2008; 30th January, 5th May, 1st November 2009

A cave, possibly occupied during the Civil War, containing a choked 12m pitch. (Further illustrated information about the Civil War in the area can be found here.) To the right of the pitch is 40m of passage to a dig at another pitch top with a good echo and draught. Five hours was spent digging this out in 2009 and a 5m pitch was descended to a silt floor. Half-way down is a body-size tube that carries the draught. This is blocked after a few metres with a sandstone blockage that "could easily be dug with a hammer and chisel". (This has not been surveyed or included in the length.)

A live bullet was found in the cave in 1998.

The base of the pitch, tight meanders, has been enlarged by the Catalans and needs to be pushed.

References: card; material in file; anon., 1998d (logbook); Corrin Juan, 1999; Corrin Juan, 2000; anon., 2009a (Easter logbook); anon., 2009c (summer logbook); Smith Peter 2012 
Entrance picture: yes
Underground picture(s):
Detailed survey: 1:1000
Line survey:
On area survey:
Survex file: yes (Amended magnetic declination December 2013 to align with Eur79 grid and coordinates altered to fit ETRS89 datum, April 2014.)

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