l'Esplugapalla
A worked rock shelter about 7 metres deep in Odèn (Solsonès), with three well-defined rooms and a smaller one, a half-collapsed bread oven and traces of human activity on the rock.
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l'Esplugapalla
A worked rock shelter about 7 metres deep in Odèn (Solsonès), with three well-defined rooms and a smaller one, a half-collapsed bread oven and traces of human activity on the rock.
Odèn · Solsonès
Length: 7 m
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A worked rock shelter about 7 metres deep in Odèn (Solsonès), with three well-defined rooms and a smaller one, a half-collapsed bread oven and traces of human activity on the rock.
Topographic
Espeleoindex · CC BY-NC 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ · Image © its author.
Photos
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Description
Morphology
There are three well-defined rooms and a smaller one, as well as a half-collapsed bread oven. The dry-stone walls that remain standing still reach two metres, with some plum trees in front of them. On the east side of the rock shelter there are two small cavities, a high one that makes use of a large flowstone hanging from the wall and another hidden by the vegetation, larger and more accessible.
Speleothems
A large flowstone hangs from the wall in the high cavity on the east side of the rock shelter.
Progression
Follow the path, ignoring the first, second and third forks you will come across on your left until you reach a junction. Now you must take the new path to the right, which leads as far as l'Esplugapalla. All in all, a good half hour's walk.
Other details
The walls blatantly show human activity on the rock in the black colour of soot. There is also scree on the ground. Birds nest above the rock shelters.
History
Known in the area since time immemorial. Surveyed in 2004 by S. Codina (CE Solsonès).
Bio
Birds nest above the rock shelters.
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Bibliography
- Codina, S.(2006).-”Esplugapalla”. Corriol (142):12-13. CE Solsonès.
- Valles, Jordi de (2009).-”Alt Urgell, Noguera, Pla d'Urgell, Segarra, Solsonès, Urgell”. Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya (2):314. EC Gràcia – FCE.
- Fotografia i situació extreta del blog d'en Isaac Camps Gamundi blocdecamp.blogspot.com post del dia 28 de juny del 2010 “l'Esplugapalla”.
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