Cova Negra de Corçà
Àger cavity with a 76 m vertical drop and 325 metres of passage, with a 4x9 metre entrance, Neolithic remains, an important lithogenic process and historical inscriptions from the 18th and 20th centuries.
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Cova Negra de Corçà
Àger cavity with a 76 m vertical drop and 325 metres of passage, with a 4x9 metre entrance, Neolithic remains, an important lithogenic process and historical inscriptions from the 18th and 20th centuries.
Àger · Noguera
Length: 325 m · Depth: 76 m
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Àger cavity with a 76 m vertical drop and 325 metres of passage, with a 4x9 metre entrance, Neolithic remains, an important lithogenic process and historical inscriptions from the 18th and 20th centuries.
Topographic
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Description
Morphology
The entrance is 4x9 metres and opens a few metres above the base of the cliff. Inside, the cave bifurcates for 14 metres before rejoining at the start of a slope. The gallery continues descending until reaching a 4 metre drop. Once this is passed, there are some joint intersections before continuing along a straight conduit that leads to a chamber. The gallery continues descending until it ends filled with sediments; before that, however, there is a 5 metre shaft that leads to a sloping gallery that leads to the lowest point of the cavity. The cave has a vertical drop of 76 metres (+3/-73) and 325 metres of passage.
Speleothems
In the chamber there is an important lithogenic process.
Progression
Once inside, the cave bifurcates for 14 metres before rejoining at the start of a slope. The gallery continues descending until reaching a 4 metre drop. Once this is passed, some joint intersections are found before continuing along a straight conduit that leads to a chamber. The gallery continues descending until it ends filled with sediments; before that, however, there is a 5 metre shaft that leads to a sloping gallery that leads to the lowest point of the cavity.
Other details
At the start of a slope, Neolithic remains are found. There is also an interesting archaeological site, where some excavations have been carried out to extract material.
History
Cavity known since ancient times; inside, the inscriptions left by some of its explorers are preserved, some of them noteworthy in part for their good calligraphy: Bellmunt, 8 de juliol de 1765, Antón Rosso d'Ager 1765, Ezpeleta 1779.
On 4 de novembre de 1956 it is visited by E. Boixadera.
Curiously, the three known surveys of the cavity were carried out coinciding in time, between the years 1981 and 1982.
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Bibliography
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Pallarès-Personat, J. (1982).-'Apèndix climàtic de la cova Negra de Corçà'. GOURS (9):128. GEFOMA. Barcelona.
Rubinat, Francesc (1982).-'Serra del Montsec'. GOURS (9):114-127. GEFOMA. Barcelona.
Vega, J, de la (1981).-'Aplec de documents arqueològics de les coves del Montsec i llur projecció a les comarques i serres properes'. Mediterrània (12):249-250.
Valles, Jordi de (2009).-'Alt Urgell, Noguera, Pla d'Urgell, Segarra, Solsonès, Urgell'. Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya. Vol. 2: 384 pp. Espeleo Club de Gràcia / Federació Catalana d'Espeleologia. Barcelona.
Dades i fotografies 'kiku' facilitades per Francesc Rubinat.
Coordenades i fotografies 'espeleodijous' extretes del web espeleodijous.cat post del 3-1-2019.
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