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Avenc del Puig Escampador

Avenc del Puig Escampador

Petit avenc de 12 m. de fondària al Garraf (Olesa de Bonesvalls)

Olesa de Bonesvalls • Alt Penedès20m12m

Small 12 m deep pit in the Garraf, in Olesa de Bonesvalls, with an entrance of 0.6 by 1.2 metres, a small shaft of about 5 metres and a ramp gallery with the ceiling raised about 9 metres.

Characteristics

Location

Shortly before reaching Olesa de Bonesvalls along the Begues road there is, on the left, a track (closed with a chain) that reaches the Puig de la Mola. Once it has climbed the first slopes it continues level through the so-called Pla de les Basses and continues until it passes the Puig de l'Escampador, which rather than a hill is a plain a little higher and which on old maps appears recorded as Puig de la Bomba. At the height of this, on the left of the track and barely one metre from it, is the entrance of the pit, normally covered with branches.

Mapa

Entrances

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  1. Avenc del Puig Escampador

    Elevation: 473 m

    41.330695, 1.855659
    UTM 31T (ETRS89) 404241 4576100
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Photos

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Description

Morphology

The entrance, 0.6 by 1.2 metres, gives access to a small shaft of about 5 metres and at its base connects with a ramp gallery and which in the final stretch presents the ceiling raised about 9 metres with respect to the base.

Other details

The entire lower stretch of the cavity is occupied by an important clastic process.

History

Faura in his Recull (1909) mentions a pit with this name but gives no data. In March 1957, Lluís Muntan with the indications of people from Olesa, locates a pit that he names Avenc del Puig Escampador, but on going alone he does not descend.

A year or two later, members of the SES – CE Puigmal (Barcelona) locate and explore a pit near the Puig Escampador and name it with the same name and from then on it is forever known as such. Emili Sabaté had commented that during the first exploration they found human remains, possibly of a soldier, since among the bones there was a button of a military uniform. The corresponding notice was given to the Guardia Civil of Begues.

Now it is known that the Pla de les Basses was witness to fighting between republican soldiers fleeing with Francoist soldiers advancing.

An indeterminate number of republican soldiers who died there were thrown into the pit. The owner of the place asked that the remains be collected and the Guardia Civil took charge of doing so.

During the visit made on 15-12-2022 by members of the group of the Espeleodijous they still found remains of human bones and they have been handed over to the Servei de Patrimoni Arqueològic i Paleontològic del Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya and they will forward them to those responsible for the Memòria Històrica.

When Joan Borràs (1974) makes the catalogue of Garraf he makes the review of the two cavities and, what had been found in the year 1957, becomes named Avenc del Pla de les Basses.

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Bibliography

  1. Borràs, J. (1974).- Catálogo espeleológico del macizo de Garraf. Vol. III . 207 pp. Barcelona.
  • Actualització de coordenades i situació (abril 2017) facilitada per Josep Guarro.
  • Fotografies 2022 extretes del web: espeleodijous.cat Apunt del 20-12-2022

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