1948: Brazada, Cueva de la (2447 (French: SCD))
Riva 30T 453047 4792832 (Datum: ETRS89. Accuracy code: A) Altitude 322m
Length 458m Depth 46m
Area position : Site entrance in context : Logbook search

Updated 24th September 2018; 24th June, 15th November 2022

The length and depth are taken from the reconstructed Survex file.

   This cave lies to the north of Riva and has been documented by the AEC Lobetum. A magnificent pot found in the cave has provided the form and style for Brazada-type pottery. Further details should appear here in due course. Simonnot G, 2018 has some references.

A part-description of the site roughly translated from the Spanish in Simonnot G, 2018:
The cave has a mouth, facing the NE, 3 m wide and 0.8 m high, which gives access to a vestibule 3 m wide and 4 m long. Continue through a gallery of 1.8 m in width and 11 m in length, followed by another, of 0.8 m width and 4 m in length, which opens into a room 5 m wide and 3 m wide length (where the pottery was found), with a pitch 5 m deep. Follow one gallery 0.6 m wide and 5.2 m long, ending in another pitch, 6 m depth. The cavity continues with a series of complicated development galleries whose bottom runs a small stream of water.
The site was discovered in the early 1960s by members of Speleo Club de Dijon, who collected the archaeological material.

Reference: pers. comm., 2016; Simonnot G, 2018; Simonnot G, 2022
Entrance picture: 2016
Underground picture(s):
Other pictures: Brazada pottery
Detailed survey: AEC Lobetum
Line survey:
On area survey:
Survex file: Reconstructed from the 1994 AEC Lobetum survey