Cova T-1 de les Grioteres
Small cave with a 24 m passage, an accessory of the Coves de les Grioteres (Vilanova de Sau), with two galleries open to the outside.
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Cova T-1 de les Grioteres
Small cave with a 24 m passage, an accessory of the Coves de les Grioteres (Vilanova de Sau), with two galleries open to the outside.
Vilanova de Sau · Osona
Length: 24 m
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Small cave with a 24 m passage, an accessory of the Coves de les Grioteres (Vilanova de Sau), with two galleries open to the outside.
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Description
Morphology
It consists of two galleries open to the outside and joined in the deepest area by a narrow low passage with a ceiling that cannot be passed.
The W gallery is predominantly narrow in the first stretch, a small step having to be overcome at the entrance itself. Once past the narrowest stretch it widens in the last metres of the gallery.
The E gallery is much wider and begins with a ramp covered in plant debris, as in all the cavities of the complex. As one advances the conduit narrows until reaching the impenetrable point of the junction of both galleries.
History
Around 1959, Mr. Martí Cassany, from Vic, learned that during the war (1936-39) a group of people had taken refuge in some caves beneath a cliff in the Sau area. He was able to speak with one of them and, besides giving him the location, he explained that the floor was full of the “olles d'en Serrallonga”. Between 1959 and 1960, with the participation of collaborating members of the Museu Episcopal de Vic, the first archaeological campaign of this complex of cavities was carried out.
It should be said that remains ranging from the Neolithic to the Middle Ages have been located inside it.
It is not until the middle of 1973 that, through a friend of the Unió Excursionista de Vic, members of the GEP of the AE Pedraforca (Barcelona) learn of the cavity, proceeding to its complete exploration and study, which was published in the journal Speleon in 1974. It was from then on that it became known in the speleological bibliography.
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Bibliography
- Castany i Llussà, Josep (1983 ?).- Les coves de les Grioteres (Vilanova de Sau, Osona). (pdf) Centre d'Informació i Documentació del Patrimoni Cultural. Generalitat de Catalunya.
- Montserrat, A.; Pi, D. (1974).- “El karst del Turó de Terrades. La Cova de les Grioteres”. Speleon (21): 31-70. Centre Excursionista de Catalunya. Barcelona.
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