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Avenc M-8

Escletxa de 14 metres de fondària a Montcortès, (Baix Pallars).

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A 14-metre-deep pit in Montcortès, Baix Pallars, with two entrances and continuations towards the S and the NW.

Characteristics

Location

From Senterada you must head to the Pobleta de Bellveí, where we will take a narrow road on the right to the estany de Montcortès. From the E side of the estany a paved track leads to Peracalç. When we reach the junction with the track that goes to Montsor, we will take this one on the right, suitable for any vehicle, and after 1.7 kilometres we will reach the flat area where the cavities are found. This is on the left of the track; the spot is easily recognised since the track makes a sharp bend to the right and also on the right there is a large temporary pool of water used by animals for drinking.

Going along the track, two bends before reaching this point where most of the cavities are found, we will find some old cultivated fields on the right; the cavity is right next to these fields.

Approximate coordinates without precision.

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Entrances

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  1. M-8, Avenc

    Elevation: 1281 m

    42.316565, 0.985911
    UTM 31T (ED 50) 334118 4687093
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Description

Morphology

Small pit that reaches -14 metres of depth. It has two entrances. At the base of one end of the entrance shaft we find two short continuations, one towards the S and another towards the NW ascending.

History

On the days 26 to 30 of March 1970 a team from the SIE of the CEA explores the Forat de Montcortès (98 metres) and the Forat del Vicenç (-10 metres). Later, on the days 6 and 7 of March 1976, another SIE team in which some of the members of the previous team take part, explore in the serra de Peracalç, between the estany de Montcortès and Peracalç, three cavities of (-30 metres, -11 metres and -7 metres) of depth respectively, which they name Forats de la Grata no. 1, 2 and 3. This information remains in the SIE archives but nothing about it is ever published. Very probably they correspond to some of the many holes explored by the GEB in this sector.

In 1980 the GEB begins a series of explorations on this flat area that is to the N of the roca de Perauba and to the W of the dolmen de Perauba and which the GEB calls pla del campament because it is the spot where they set up camp during the explorations; these would last until the year 1988. Later they return in September 1994, in July 1995 when they accompany the archaeologists from the department of history of pre-capitalist societies and social anthropology of the UAB and they return again in November 1999. In this cavity specifically, two human skeletons were found, one of them with military webbing and a hole in the skull.

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Bibliography

  1. Porcel Caro,Enric.(1990).-”Exploracions a la Serra Magdalena ”. Cavernas (22):49-57. GE Badalona.
  2. Porcel Caro,Enric; Miret Pérez, Francesc.(2008).-”Cavernes d'interès arqueològic”. Cavernas (27):58-63. GE Badalona.
  3. Navarro,J.(1971).-”Relación cronológica de las exploraciones realizadas por miembros de la SIE en 1970”. EspeleoSie (10):75-87. SIE – CE Àliga.

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