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Avenc del Piló

Avenc del Piló

A small pit at the Cingle Blanc, Arbolí, with a gallery about 5 metres long by 2 wide and two interconnecting branches.

Arbolí • Baix Camp 11m 3m

A small pit at the Cingle Blanc, Arbolí, with a gallery about 5 metres long by 2 wide and two interconnecting branches.

Characteristics

Location

From the coll d'Alforja the road heading to l'Arbolí (TV-7012) starts; after a couple of kilometres we come to a junction: to the left it goes to l'Arbolí, to the right to la Mussara, and we take the latter (TV-7092). After about 350 metres from the junction, we find on the right a cultivated field and at the end of it a flat area where a path begins that heads to l'Alforja, descending the Cingle Blanc by the grau de l'Embut. After a bend to the right we reach the base of the cingle; the path passes between an enormous block and the wall of the cingle. We follow the path until we reach the next bend, this time to the left; right at the bend a small trail leaves head-on, which we follow for about 50 metres, then turn off and climb up in the direction of the cingle for about 30 metres, where there are two gigantic blocks (there are cairns, data from 2012). At the base of the left-hand block we will find the mouth no. 1 of the avenc dels Ossos; we continue climbing the scree of blocks up to the upper part of it, where on the left we will find the mouth of the avenc del Piló.

Map

Entrances

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  1. Avenc del Piló

    Elevation: 728 m

    41.224191, 0.955394
    UTM 31T (ED 50) 328719 4565864
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Photos

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Description

Morphology

A small step places us in a gallery about 5 metres long by 2 wide, from which two small branches emerge, interconnected at their lower end.

History

Although long known to the local people, the first visit of which there is a record is the one made in 1929 by Salvador Vilaseca Anguera, from Reus; he carried out archaeological studies at a series of caves located in the Cingle Blanc, calling them the caves of Arbolí and cataloguing them alphabetically with the letters from A to N; he published these studies in 1934.

In more modern times the cavity received sporadic visits from speleologists. The GES of the CMB during 1979 explored all the cavities of the Cingle Blanc, publishing the results in 1980 in the magazine Sota Terra 1. Currently the municipality of l'Arbolí is incorporated into the comarca of Baix Camp, but at different times it had been in the Conca de Barberà and also in the Priorat.

Except for la Cova del Rufino, which Vilaseca catalogued with the letter “C”, the GES, faced with the uncertainty of knowing which letter corresponded to each cavity, chose to rename all the cavities that were not known by some specific name.

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Bibliography

  1. Borrás, J.;Miñarro, JM.;Talavera, F.(1984).-”el baix camp, el priorat i la ribera d'ebre”. Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya (vol. 7):1-283. Ed. Políglota. Barcelona.
  2. Ferrer, V.; Cano, M.; Borràs, J.; Garcés, JL.(1982).-”Coves del Rufino (els Motllats). Sota Terra (3):59-64. GES – CMB. Barcelona.
  3. Montoriol, A.(1980).-”Noves cavitats obertes als Motllats”. Sota Terra (1):28-38. GES – CMB. Barcelona.
  4. Massó Carballido, Jaume.-”Salvador Vilaseca i la Prehistòria d'Arbolí. Notes Biogràfiques”. Aplec de treballs (14).
  1. Vilaseca Anguera, Salvador.(1934).-”les Coves d'Arbolí (Conca de Barberà)” butlletí Arqueològic (èpc.III,47):317-328. Societat Arqueològica Tarraconense

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