Cova de la Dou

The entrance is triangular in shape, 0.70x2.50 metres, and allows one to enter upright. A few metres in we observe a second opening in the ceiling, a skylight or exit through which light enters, and we find a straight passage oriented to the SE. At 8 metres there is a small and impenetrable gallery on the left, and at 10 metres we have a branch on the right. If we go into this branch, we find a descending gallery, about 10 metres long, with several drops that leads to the terminus of the cave and its maximum depth of -8 metres. This joint has dimensions of about 0.4 metres wide by variable heights of 1 to 3 metres. The end is a small pool of water accumulated when it rains. Returning to the branch, we find a joint 6 metres high, where large wedged blocks form an upper floor. We will advance following the SE direction of the entrance gallery for about 3 metres, here we find another fork. If we go to the right a ramp will take us to an R-2.3 metres, leaving small branches without continuation on the left. Having descended the drop we find a small room “Mortuorium” where we move among disturbed remains of bones and ceramics from the Bronze Age site, unfortunately the little that remains from the looting done by amateurs and from old archaeological excavations that left everything stirred up and out of context. Returning to the aforementioned fork of the main gallery (the one located 3 metres after the branch), we continue forward and descend another R-2.30 m. At 3 metres the gallery turns slightly to the left in an E direction, easy to traverse, ending at 6 metres of passage. Three metres before, a passage takes us to some squeezes that gradually close, except one that turns left shortly after entering and returns to the gallery making some zigzags. Finally, if we return to the previous fork, we will have to climb an E+2.20, and with ease we access the upper floor (Superior Locus) above some fallen rocks where a room is formed; if we ascend in a S direction, we will find a squeeze that ends at 4 metres. If we go down in a N direction, at 5 metres we will descend an R-1.70 metres and close a circuit, since we have arrived where the first branch of the entrance gallery begins.

The end is a small pool of water accumulated when it rains.

The entrance is triangular in shape, 0.70x2.50 metres, and allows one to enter upright. A few metres in we observe a second opening in the ceiling, a skylight or exit through which light enters, and we find a straight passage oriented to the SE. At 8 metres there is a small and impenetrable gallery on the left, and at 10 metres we have a branch on the right. If we go into this branch, we find a descending gallery, about 10 metres long, with several drops that leads to the terminus of the cave and its maximum depth of -8 metres. This joint has dimensions of about 0.4 metres wide by variable heights of 1 to 3 metres. The end is a small pool of water accumulated when it rains. Returning to the branch, we find a joint 6 metres high, where large wedged blocks form an upper floor. We will advance following the SE direction of the entrance gallery for about 3 metres, here we find another fork. If we go to the right a ramp will take us to an R-2.3 metres, leaving small branches without continuation on the left. Having descended the drop we find a small room “Mortuorium” where we move among disturbed remains of bones and ceramics from the Bronze Age site, unfortunately the little that remains from the looting done by amateurs and from old archaeological excavations that left everything stirred up and out of context. Returning to the aforementioned fork of the main gallery (the one located 3 metres after the branch), we continue forward and descend another R-2.30 m. At 3 metres the gallery turns slightly to the left in an E direction, easy to traverse, ending at 6 metres of passage. Three metres before, a passage takes us to some squeezes that gradually close, except one that turns left shortly after entering and returns to the gallery making some zigzags. Finally, if we return to the previous fork, we will have to climb an E+2.20, and with ease we access the upper floor (Superior Locus) above some fallen rocks where a room is formed; if we ascend in a S direction, we will find a squeeze that ends at 4 metres. If we go down in a N direction, at 5 metres we will descend an R-1.70 metres and close a circuit, since we have arrived where the first branch of the entrance gallery begins.

Cave 77 m long, of archaeological interest, in l'Arbolí (Baix Camp).