MUTANG (Cave near)
25.187500,92.366700
Description
NOTE 1: Mutang (unidentified precision error) 25°11'00”N: 92°21'20”E (WGS84 modified from 25°11'00”N: 92°21'30”E Everest 1830, RAJA RAO, C S 1981: 75) from "mu" or "moo" (Syntang Khasi), maw (standard Khasi) or rock combined with ka 'tang (Khasi, noun), short for: ka ktang, a pipe (SINGH, N 1906: 218) tang (Khasi, verb) to make a finish of the plaiting of wicker-baskets or nets; to measure or heap up grain as much as a measuring basket can contain and holding one hand to support the grain (SINGH, N 1906: 218) thang" (verb, transitive) to burn (OLDHAM, T 1854 / 1984 appendix C: lxiv; SINGH, N 1906: 223; SINGH, N 1920: 56; BLAH, E 2007: 38); to cremate (SINGH, N 1906: 223); deflagrate (SINGH, N 1920: 112).
A south-facing, letterbox-shaped cave entrance (20 m wide, 1 m high) at the base of a cliff gives access to a cave chamber, which descends some 25 m at a slightly inclined angle to an estimated 2 m wide and 8 m deep pitch or shaft in a relatively far corner. ETYMOLOGY: No autochthonous, indigenous or locally known name has been identified for a cave called after the relatively nearby populated place of Mutang (note 1). SITUATION: The letterbox-shaped cave entrance lies at the base of a cliff (unidentified position) and in an unidentified spatial relation to a populated place called Mutang in the vicinity of spots without any recorded GPS position (Georg Bäumler, Brian D. Kharpran Daly and Spindro Dkhar 1997 February 19 personal communication).
Cavités proche
Distance (km) | Nom | Longueur (m) | Profondeur (m) |
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0.0 | DNGIEM, Mutang (Krem) | ||
0.2 | MUTANG COAL MINE CAVE | ||
0.2 | SHYNRANG THLOO, 1st (Krem) | ||
0.3 | UMKWU (Krem) | ||
0.3 | UMTYLLU | ||
0.4 | UMKHLOT (Krem) | ||
0.4 | YORKSHIRE POT | ||
0.4 | AA CAVE (Jarratt 2000.02.22) | ||
0.4 | UMSO, Mutang (Krem) |