Grotte du Soula

Side passages on the right of the porch. The entrance gallery is 25 m long and 5 to 8 m wide. At the back of this gallery, against the left wall, a ventilated vertical shaft 12 m high (+16) arrives, very close to the surface. Just after, at the top of a flowstone, a horizontal passage starts on the left. The main conduit continues north for about fifty metres; it is more cluttered with blocks and clayey and silty fill. Before the end, on the left, a crawlway and a shaft 6 metres high start. The whole right edge of this gallery is dotted with smaller conduits that more or less join up.

One climbs on the right, skirting a well-preserved old lime kiln. At the back of the entrance gallery, several possibilities: against the left wall, the ventilated vertical shaft 12 m high (+16); just after, at the top of a flowstone, the horizontal passage on the left (unobstructed by the SCM in 2022), with 10 metres of progression and a stop at a constriction with a draught. The main conduit then continues north for about fifty metres.

The entrance gallery is largely lit by the sun. It served as an extraction site to supply the kiln; the walls are blackened and inscriptions, some high up, attest to the recent presence of humans and the anthropogenic use of the cave.