Balmes dels Segarra
A built-up rock shelter on the Aigua de Valls river (Guixers), divided into two shelters, with remains of an oven, wooden beds and an animal stall; abandoned in the early 1960s.
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Balmes dels Segarra
A built-up rock shelter on the Aigua de Valls river (Guixers), divided into two shelters, with remains of an oven, wooden beds and an animal stall; abandoned in the early 1960s.
Guixers · Solsonès
Length: 8 m
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A built-up rock shelter on the Aigua de Valls river (Guixers), divided into two shelters, with remains of an oven, wooden beds and an animal stall; abandoned in the early 1960s.
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Description
Morphology
It is divided into two shelters. The more easterly one is higher up and structured with three walls that have fallen, under the rock, with an oven in the middle, still preserved. The ground is full of rocks from the walls, wooden beams, some burnt ones and various rubbish. The more westerly one, separated by about 5 metres, is deeper and lower, still preserves the wooden beds and an animal stall, the ground is full of rubble.
On the more easterly side of the higher shelter, a mudslide is infiltrating, coming down from a side gully with the danger of sweeping everything away.
Other details
It is so covered with brambles, ivy and rotten cherry trees that one could say you cannot enter. It gives the sensation of a dangerous ruin, because the walls do not hold themselves up and the rock itself erodes quickly, opening cracks and falling to one side.
History
Known since time immemorial, the last inhabitants abandoned it in the early 1960s.
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Bibliography
- Borràs, J; Miñarro, JM; Talavera, F.(1980).-”l'urgell, el solsonès, la segarra i el berguedà”. Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya (vol.5):159. Ed. Políglota. Barcelona.
- Codina, Salvador.(2000).-”Balma dels Segarra de Montcalb”. Corriol (134):10-11. Centre Excursionista del Solsonès.
- Valles, Jordi de. (2009).-”Alt Urgell, Noguera, Pla d'Urgell, Segarra, Solsonès, Urgell” Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya (2):358-359. EC Gràcia/FCE.
- Dades extretes del blog de Jordi de Valles, post del dia 8-10-2015 (cavitatsdecatalunya.blogspot.com.es).
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