5336: Bus Stop Cave
Beranga 30T 451600 4806553 (Datum: ETRS89. Accuracy code: G) Altitude 70m
Length 80m
Area position : Site entrance in context : Logbook search

Updated 3rd, 30th September 2023; 3rd May 2024

   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 with tree roots 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.

   In April 2024, the surface area beyond the end of the cave was examined - but not completely because of the head-high brambles and pampas grass. A small depression is showing up on the LIDAR map just past the end of this cave.

Reference: anon., 2023b (Easter logbook); anon., 2023c (summer logbook); anon., 2024b (Easter 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