Cuves de Héchettes
Cavity in Urgonian limestones of the lower Clansayesian, beginning with a tight squeeze and a small 5-metre shaft, with a P8 and calcite flows obstructing the passage at -27 m.
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Cuves de Héchettes
Cavity in Urgonian limestones of the lower Clansayesian, beginning with a tight squeeze and a small 5-metre shaft, with a P8 and calcite flows obstructing the passage at -27 m.
Hèches
Length: 61 m · Depth: 28 m
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Cavity in Urgonian limestones of the lower Clansayesian, beginning with a tight squeeze and a small 5-metre shaft, with a P8 and calcite flows obstructing the passage at -27 m.
Description
Morphology
The cavity begins with a tight squeeze at the head of a small 5-metre shaft. A narrow step leads to the top of the P8, which gives access to the salle des Charbonniers. A meander pinches at -11 m. An awkward passage descends to -27 m, at the bottom of the cavity.
Speleothems
At -27 m, the passage is obstructed by calcite flows.
Progression
The narrow step leading to the top of the P8 must be rigged. At the bottom of the salle des Charbonniers, head to the left to climb a meander that pinches at -11 m. Retrace your steps and, in the chamber, continue descending an awkward passage that leads to -27 m at the bottom of the cavity. No draught.
Other details
The cavity is located on lower Clansayesian terrain: Urgonian limestones, with Toucasia and encrusting Florideae. Cf. BRGM geological map Arreau no. 1072.
Posted by José Ferris 09/09/16.
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Contains information from Grottocenter (Wikicaves), grottocenter.org, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL 1.0, https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/), modified. · https://grottocenter.org/ui/entrances/64758 · The derived data is available on request under the ODbL: [email protected] · data as of 2026 · Source: Grottocenter (Association Wikicaves), worldwide collaborative cave database (grottocenter.org), modified. CC BY-SA 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Grottocenter (Wikicaves) · Text by BTH (Géologie), José Ferris (Description générale) · adapted by Espeleoworld (normalized, translated); the adaptation is licensed CC BY-SA 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ · https://grottocenter.org/ui/entrances/64758 · data as of 2026