SIBPUR (Cave near)

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

A cave entrance without identified shape or dimensions faces an ignored direction and gives access to a kind of cave (note 1) in which a wooden ladder (12 February 2001) eased climbing some 5 m down into an estimated 10 m long cave passage with secondary calcite deposits (stalagmite and stalactite speleothems). ETYMOLOGY: No autochthonous, indigenous or locally known name has been identified for this cave simply called after an unidentified village at an unidentified GPS position (note 2) of which the name has been recorded as Shipor Julie Hesketh (February 2001, after a map seen on / traced from wall of the Barsaura Police Station) Sibpir Jantschke (2001.02.12 Mss: Indien.doc) Sibpur Brooks (2002.07.10 Mss) and Sibpor Brooks (2001 Mss: MEGHD2001.doc).SITUATION: Jantschke (2001.02.12 Mss: Indien.doc) located Krem Sibpir in a so-called -dry valley- without identified name, which lies either in a direct line or at a travelling distance without direction of about 2 km from an unspecifiedspot (note 3) at the village of Borsora (sic!) or Barsaura (note 4).CAVE DESCRIPTION 1: Brooks (2001 Mss: MEGHD2001.doc) observed an estimated length of about 8 m in a small cave (Sibpor Cave) at Sibpor. CAVE DESCRIPTION 2: Jantschke (after 2001.02.12 Mss: Indien.doc) observed an estimated 10 m long cave space with lots of calcite formations across which one climbs an estimated 5 m down on an old wooden ladder to a cave floor with fragments of broken pottery. CULTURAL HISTORY - archaeology, human use: Not only the wooden ladder, which had been put up on 12 February 2001, but also the fragments of broken pottery clearly indicate that the cave is relevant in one way or another. In the final analysis, little doubt remains that posing curiosity had slipped from the attention of the cave explorers.A cave entrance without identified shape or dimensions faces an ignored direction and gives access to a kind of cave (note 1) in which a wooden ladder (12 February 2001) eased climbing some 5 m down into an estimated 10 m long cave passage with secondary calcite deposits (stalagmite and stalactite speleothems). ETYMOLOGY: No autochthonous, indigenous or locally known name has been identified for this cave simply called after an unidentified village at an unidentified GPS position (note 2) of which the name has been recorded as Shipor Julie Hesketh (February 2001, after a map seen on / traced from wall of the Barsaura Police Station) Sibpir Jantschke (2001.02.12 Mss: Indien.doc) Sibpur Brooks (2002.07.10 Mss) and Sibpor Brooks (2001 Mss: MEGHD2001.doc).SITUATION: Jantschke (2001.02.12 Mss: Indien.doc) located Krem Sibpir in a so-called -dry valley- without identified name, which lies either in a direct line or at a travelling distance without direction of about 2 km from an unspecifiedspot (note 3) at the village of Borsora (sic!) or Barsaura (note 4).CAVE DESCRIPTION 1: Brooks (2001 Mss: MEGHD2001.doc) observed an estimated length of about 8 m in a small cave (Sibpor Cave) at Sibpor. CAVE DESCRIPTION 2: Jantschke (after 2001.02.12 Mss: Indien.doc) observed an estimated 10 m long cave space with lots of calcite formations across which one climbs an estimated 5 m down on an old wooden ladder to a cave floor with fragments of broken pottery. CULTURAL HISTORY - archaeology, human use: Not only the wooden ladder, which had been put up on 12 February 2001, but also the fragments of broken pottery clearly indicate that the cave is relevant in one way or another. In the final analysis, little doubt remains that posing curiosity had slipped from the attention of the cave explorers.