043 Cueva de Escarabajo
South Vega VN51229394 Alt. 627m Length 105m Depth ~34m
A 15m stoop and walk leads to a 20m calcite slope which can be walked down on the left. At the base, on the right, a 10m pitch drops onto another calcite slope which ends at a calcite choke. On the left a passage leads to further choked pitches.
The entrance passage appears to have archaeological excavations, while the skeleton of a possible boar lies near to the mud formations at the base of the calcite slope.
A sediment sample was taken at Whit 95.
References: Fernández Gutiérrez et al, 1966;
anon., 1975b (logbook); Corrin J S and Smith P, 1981; material in file; anon.,
1995b (Whit logbook)
Entrance picture : yes
Underground picture(s): base of calcite
slope sediment sampling 1
sediment sampling 2
boar skull?
calcite slope
entrance passage
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