
Cova del Bisbe
A 56-metre-long cave in Sales de Llierca, with a single gallery and a Middle Palaeolithic site.
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Cova del Bisbe
A 56-metre-long cave in Sales de Llierca, with a single gallery and a Middle Palaeolithic site.
Sales de Llierca · Garrotxa
Length: 56 m · Depth: 5 m
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A 56-metre-long cave in Sales de Llierca, with a single gallery and a Middle Palaeolithic site.
Topographic
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Description
Morphology
Formed by a single gallery slightly ascending in its first half and then continuing practically flat until the end. The first section has a fairly high ceiling, 10 or 12 metres; but a little beyond the halfway point of the route, the ceiling gradually lowers until it meets the floor. The entrance-to-end route (elevation A-B) calculated from the most recent and most accurate survey gives a total of 56 m. Until now it was credited with a route of 68 m.
History
Known since time immemorial. Puig i Larraz already mentions it in 1896 and Norbert Font i Sagué includes it in 1897 in the Catálech Espeleològich de Catalunya.
It is a Middle Palaeolithic site, excavated in 1933 and 1969.
According to a popular legend, it is said that a bishop of Perpinyà had been hidden there. Another legend refers to some Christians hidden from the Muslim invasion.
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Bibliography
- Borràs,J;Miñarro,JM;Talavera,F.(1980).-”el Ripollès, la Garrotxa i l'Alt Empordà” Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya (vol.4):216-217. ed. Políglota. Barcelona.
- Valles, Jordi de(2009).-”Berguedà, Cerdanya, Garrotxa, Ripollès” Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya (vol.3):215-216. EC Gràcia / FCE.
- Topografia (2021) i fotografies, facilitades per Toni Inglès i Alfred Montserrat (ERE – CEC). Novembre 2021
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