MONUMENT POT (aa -)

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

A collapse doline with vertical walls, which was estimated to be 10 m by 15 m wide and 9 m wide, probably has a width/depth ratio larger than 1. ETYMOLOGY: No autochthonous, indigenous or locally known name has been identified -- if one exists -- for what once had been christened Monument Pot because it is 1. neither a pot (note 1) nor a pothole (note 2) but a collapse doline (note 3) and 2. somehow associated with a monument (note 4) in the sense of an unspecified kind of structure erected to commemorate a famous or notable person or event. SITUATION: The Monument Pot (note 5) was found in an unknown setting and is said to lie at an estimated distance of about 500 m or 600 m approximately south-east from the village of Mawkhlain and the GPS position recorded for the Monument Pot indicates a location about 1.5 km in a direct line approximately south-east of Mawlong. APPROACH: Follow main track from Mawlong quarry past track down to the longer Krem Lyngar obvious collapse on LHS path i sandstone (Rob Harper 2001 February Mss -Monument Pot- undated). CAVE DESCRIPTION: On the northern side of the closed depression is a route (a handline is helpful) down to a boulder cone in the centre of the dubious object without obvious cave passage. The stream sink (dry in February 2001) without accessible cave passage is suspected to represent a blocked cave entrance to the (interrupted) cave system of Krem –>U Priang (Mawlong) and Krem –>Lyngar. CULTURAL HISTORY: None noticed (Rob Harper 2001 February Mss -Monument Pot- undated).A collapse doline with vertical walls, which was estimated to be 10 m by 15 m wide and 9 m wide, probably has a width/depth ratio larger than 1. ETYMOLOGY: No autochthonous, indigenous or locally known name has been identified -- if one exists -- for what once had been christened Monument Pot because it is 1. neither a pot (note 1) nor a pothole (note 2) but a collapse doline (note 3) and 2. somehow associated with a monument (note 4) in the sense of an unspecified kind of structure erected to commemorate a famous or notable person or event. SITUATION: The Monument Pot (note 5) was found in an unknown setting and is said to lie at an estimated distance of about 500 m or 600 m approximately south-east from the village of Mawkhlain and the GPS position recorded for the Monument Pot indicates a location about 1.5 km in a direct line approximately south-east of Mawlong. APPROACH: Follow main track from Mawlong quarry past track down to the longer Krem Lyngar obvious collapse on LHS path i sandstone (Rob Harper 2001 February Mss -Monument Pot- undated). CAVE DESCRIPTION: On the northern side of the closed depression is a route (a handline is helpful) down to a boulder cone in the centre of the dubious object without obvious cave passage. The stream sink (dry in February 2001) without accessible cave passage is suspected to represent a blocked cave entrance to the (interrupted) cave system of Krem –>U Priang (Mawlong) and Krem –>Lyngar. CULTURAL HISTORY: None noticed (Rob Harper 2001 February Mss -Monument Pot- undated).