Cova de l'Ermita
Small cave in travertine at Aiguafreda, with an entrance closed by an iron grille, a short passage and a chamber with 4 anthropomorphic tombs carved into the rock.
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Cova de l'Ermita
Small cave in travertine at Aiguafreda, with an entrance closed by an iron grille, a short passage and a chamber with 4 anthropomorphic tombs carved into the rock.
Aiguafreda · Vallès Oriental
Sviluppo: 12 m · Profondità: 3 m
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Small cave in travertine at Aiguafreda, with an entrance closed by an iron grille, a short passage and a chamber with 4 anthropomorphic tombs carved into the rock.
Topografia
Espeleoindex · CC BY-NC 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ · Immagine © del suo autore.
Foto
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Descrizione
Morfologia
The entrance, closed with an iron grille, leads into a short passage that opens into a chamber 8 metres long by 4 wide and a little more than 2 high. At the end of the chamber the floor rises slightly through a small side conduit.
Idrologia
On the slope of the riera de Martinet there is a water pool.
Progressione
The entrance, closed with an iron grille, leads into a short passage that opens into a chamber. At the end of the chamber the floor rises slightly through a small side conduit.
Altri dettagli
In this chamber, carved into the rock, there are 4 tombs of anthropomorphic type, some of them heavily degraded by erosion.
Storia
Cavity known since time immemorial. The first speleological mention is due to the exploration by members of the Grup Geogràfic de Gràcia. The tombs carved into the rock seem to possibly be of Visigothic period.
Note biospeleologiche
Arachnida / Araneae / Leptonetidae
- Leptoneta infuscata (Simon, 1872)
Arachnida / Araneae / Linyphiidae
- Tenuiphantes (Saaristo&Tanasevitch, 1996)
Arachnida / Araneae / Pholcidae
- Pholcus phalangioides (Fuesslin, 1775)
Arachnida / Araneae / Tetragnathidae
- Meta bourneti (Simon, 1922)
- Metellina merianae (Scopoli, 1763)
Arachnida / Scorpiones / Superstitionidae
- Belisarius xambeui (Simon, 1879)
Insecta / Coleoptera / Leiodidae
- Parvospeonomus cruillensis (Comas, 2021)
Insecta / Diptera / Limoniidae
- Limonia nubeculosa (Meigen, 1804)
(Source of the data: Dept. Artròpodes del Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona)
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Bibliografia
- Bosch, F. i Prat, M. (1975).- “Unes sepultures olerdolanes a Aiguafreda de Dalt” Muntanya (677): 288-292. Centre Excursionista de Catalunya. Barcelona.
- Grup Geogràfic de Gràcia (1976).- “Nota sobre tres cavidades en Aiguafreda (Barcelona)” Cavernas (19-20): 33-49. GE Badalona.
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Fonte: Espeleoindex (espeleoindex.com), modificato. CC BY-NC 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/