FUDAM ROCK CHAMBERS

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 28/03/2016

An unfinished man-made 'cave temple' (rock-cut chambers used for religious purposes) without (surviving?) decorations, now (December 1998) used to stack straw. The three and a half interior chambers (about 4 m wide and 2 m high) in a row face each to a connecting gallery (12 m wide, 3 m "deep" and 2.4 m high) with a double-pillared gate facing south-south-east (165°). A substantial and 2 m high flowstone ridge (speleothem) attached to the wall of the north-eastern cell is probably datable. SITUATION: About 500 m in a direct line south-west of the church (Lady of Remedies) in Fudam village. CAVE LIFE: Mosquitos in the air, earth wasps' nests on the walls, ant-lion funnels in the dusty sand floor, and a discarded snake skin wedged in a fissure.