Backofenhöhle

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 27/04/2016

A joint controlled triangular cave entrance (1 m wide, 1.1 m high) to an ellipsoid tube which ascends by15° to terminate at a crossing rift (3 m high) 11.5 m from the entrance. ETYMOLOGY: Since no locally known cave name –if it exists– has been identified for the item has been recorded under the made-up, German field name "Backofenhöhle" (literally translated: 'baking stove cave'), a speleological term used in parts of southern Germany and Austria for 'heat trap cave'. SITUATION: At the sloping foot of the Nagpahar (Naga Pahar, 'serpent / snake hill') cuesta south-east of Pushkar (10 km north-west of Ajmer) and about 30 m above the (dry) riverbed of the Gori Nadi, which lies some 500 m south of the mango grove below –>Bam Deo Gufa.