AA CAVE, Siju Damokgithim, 1st

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 31/05/2016

A slippery 3 m climb down leads into a single chamber cave with a soil-covered floor that descends approximately southwards to a funnel shaped hollow in soil (estimated 8 m below the cave entrance) and to a narrow (enterable?) rift high up in the distal corner, at an estimated maximal penetration distance of about 40 m (or so) approximately south from the entrance. SITUATION: In what was in April 1994 a sugar cane plantantion on the south-western side of a footpath descending from Siju Damokgithim (N25°21'30”: E090°39'42” WGS84, the upper Siju village on the road) down to Siju Hat (N25°21'05”: E090°41'05” (WGS84, one of the three lower Siju villages). Right across the mouth of the cave passed a double inch diameter waterpipe that was painted in black colour with the largest possible one-inch letters saying »VACCINATE YOUR CHILDREN« --as if warning not to fall accidentally into the gaping hole. BROOKS & SMART (1995: 35) have the first of their three »Footpath Pot and Caves(s)« to be »found by the side of the footpath connecting Upper and Lower Siju villages immediately below Middle Siju village.«