
Forat del Coscoll
A 103-metre-deep pit in Camarasa, located in 1973, with a continuation found in 2005 that brings the current depth to -103 metres.
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Forat del Coscoll
A 103-metre-deep pit in Camarasa, located in 1973, with a continuation found in 2005 that brings the current depth to -103 metres.
Camarasa · Noguera
Length: 195 m · Depth: 103 m
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A 103-metre-deep pit in Camarasa, located in 1973, with a continuation found in 2005 that brings the current depth to -103 metres.
Topographic
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Description
Morphology
The upper entrance consists of three chambers of reduced dimensions, in the last of which the connection with the lower sector opens.
The new sector is formed by a pit 17 metres by 0.6 metres average width; at its base another pit of 19 metres opens with a width that ranges between 0.4 and 0.6 metres. At the base the last vertical drop of 16 metres of depth opens, with ramp sections. At the end, a small sub-horizontal section can be followed while the narrowness allows.
Progression
Through the lower entrance, after a 4-metre drop one follows a fissure with a steep gradient and unstable floor to a widening; one must climb a step between blocks and descend on the other side to a second ramp full of dust that leads to the maximum depth reached in 1983.
A 10-metre climb places us in front of a narrowness that connects with the new sector.
History
Located in 1973 by members of the GELL who explored it, attributing to it a depth of 60 metres.
In 1982, following the writing of the speleology chapter of the book “El Montsec i muntanyes veïnes”, Josep M. Molgó and Josep LL. Gàzquez, after many attempts, relocated the cavity and carried out the survey that gives -61 metres.
It is not until 2005 that the GELL returns to the cavity and finds the continuation that brings the current depth to -103 metres.
In the gallery numerous remains of burials, hand-made pottery and flint remains were found. It is a collective burial cave dated to some moment of the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age.
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Bibliography
- GELL.(1984).- “Fitxer de cavitats”. Grallera. (1):52-53. GELL-CE Lleida.
- Gazquez i Pons, Josep Lluís. (1983).-”El Forat del Coscoll”. Circular del Centre Excursionista de Lleida (març).
- Gàzquez, Josep Lluís.(2006).-“Avenc del Coscoll”. Grallera (6):97-98. GELL-CE Lleida.
- Grinó Màrquez, Damià .- Memòria de la intervenció arqueològica d'urgència realitzada a la necrópolis de Palous (Camarasa, Lleida). Direcció General del Patrimoni Cultural.
- Rodriguez i Duque, Josep Ignasi (1982).-”La cueva sepulcral del Forat del Coscoll”. Ilerda XLIII (255-264).
- Coordenades i fotografies extretes del blog (joanmontoya.blogspot.com) GEXXI Forat del Coscoll.
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