
Cova Mahoma
Petita cova de 10 m. de recorregut a Torrelles de Foix
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Cova Mahoma
Petita cova de 10 m. de recorregut a Torrelles de Foix
Torrelles de Foix · Alt Penedès
Length: 10 m · Depth: 1 m
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Small cave with a 10 m passage in Torrelles de Foix, with an entrance 3 m wide by 1.50 m high, a gallery 2.80 m high and a blowing crawlway of 0.40×0.40 m. Discovered in 1959 and re-explored in 2017.
Topographic
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Description
Morphology
The entrance is about 3 metres wide by 1.50 high; it leads us into a small chamber, where after 4 metres of passage we will continue through the fissure on the right for about 5 more metres along a gallery about 2.80 metres high. The continuation, quite obvious, is found in a blowing crawlway of 0.40×0.40 metres with a small step and in the shape of a “four”, very selective. It is a fissure where the clastic process is evident, with large blocks detached from the ceiling.
Progression
The continuation, quite obvious, is found in a blowing crawlway of 0.40×0.40 metres with a small step and in the shape of a “four”, very selective. So selective that none of the four explorers (GEB; CE Castellar, 2017) were able to get through.
History
Discovered and explored in 1959 by members of the ERE-AEC of Vilafranca del Penedès, who give it a passage of 25 metres and a very narrow 19-metre shaft, which they say they descended with difficulty (brief note in Cordada no. 42, 1959). During the 1980s the GREV (Vilanova i la Geltrú) carried out intense prospecting in this area and visited the cave, as can be inferred from the sign painted at the entrance, but they did not publish their results. In 1982 archaeological materials were collected on the surface. The cavity was forgotten until 2017, when the usual prospectors of the G.E. Badalona and the C.E. Castellar located it, covered by vegetation, exploring and surveying the horizontal entrance section, being unable to get past the narrowness that supposedly leads to the 19-metre shaft mentioned in 1959.
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Bibliography
- Totes les dades, topografia i fotografies han estat extretes del web: geb.cat (del GE Badalona). Apunt del 3 d'abril del 2017
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