Bauma de la Xuriguera
A small worked rock shelter in Llaés (Ripoll), known since time immemorial and inhabited until 1969.
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Bauma de la Xuriguera
A small worked rock shelter in Llaés (Ripoll), known since time immemorial and inhabited until 1969.
Ripoll · Ripollès
Length: 5 m
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A small worked rock shelter in Llaés (Ripoll), known since time immemorial and inhabited until 1969.
Topographic
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Description
Morphology
The rock shelter itself is small, about 14 m wide, although the eastern part ends very imprecisely. The western end is the most habitable, where we find a stone hut, currently without a roof. The maximum depth of the shelter is 4.5 m.
Hydrology
To the east of the rock shelter there is a flow of tufa down which the water of the torrent runs when it rains. We find small holes in the tufa.
Other details
Around the rock shelter we find stone walls that are not very high, some to make a kind of enclosure and others in the manner of a wall of old terraces. We also find anthropogenic remains, such as pottery fragments, iron plates, rusty buckets, etc.
History
Known since time immemorial. The last permanent inhabitant was Josep Torroella Fajula (known as l'oncle Pepet or Pepet de Castellpalom), who left the bauma de la Xuriguera in 1969. Josep Torroella was a charcoal burner and had been born in 1901, dying in Sant Quirze a few days after leaving the rock shelter. His life in the rock shelter was quite simple; his diet was limited to a wineskin of wine, fruit (basically apples), bacon, beans and little else. This rock shelter was not a permanent dwelling, but he alternated it with the baumes de Can Llagosta and de l'Argelager.
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Bibliography
- Torruella, J.; Capdevila, N.; Vilaseca, D. (2008).- "Bauma de la Xuriguera" El 855 (129):52-53
- Totes
les dades han estat extretes del blog de Jordi de Valles
(cavitatsdecatalunya.blogspot.com.es) post del dia 22 de gener de
2015.
Participants: Josep Cuenca i Francesc Xavier Samarra (Grup d'Espeleologia de Badalona) Ferran Cardona i Jordi de Valles (Espeleo Club de Gràcia), amb Carme Bañolas.
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