BILLA SURGAM 6: Chapter House

(Bethamcherla - IN)
15.433600,78.185300
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Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Another true tunnel cave containing about 40 m or 50 m of roofed cañon passage (aligned WSW-ENE), which is flanked by two ceiling windows (pothole entrances) and some 30 m or 40 m of lateral cave passages (shown on LYDEKKER 1886b, page 24: Sketch plan of Billa Surgam Caves). ETYMOLOGY: One of the two officers called Bruce Foote [either Robert B. Foote or his son Henry B. Foote] named these caves from east to west [sic!] as Charnel House, Purgatory Cave, Cathedral Cave and Chapter House (PRASAD & YADAGIRI 1986 for 1980-1981: 72). SITUATION: About 100 m along the daylight-lit stream bed upstream (west) of the roofed cañon section forming –>Billa Surgam 3: Cathedral Cave.

Documents

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Histoire

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Cavités proche

Distance (km)NomLongueur (m)Profondeur (m)
0.0BILLA SURGAM, cave under present study
0.1BILLA SURGAM 4: South Chapel
0.1BILLA SURGAM 5: North Chapel
0.1BILLA SURGAM: U-SHAPED CAVE
0.1BILLA SURGAM 3: Cathedral Cave
0.1BILLA SURGAM 2: Purgatory Cave
0.2BILLA SURGAM 1: Charnel House
0.4BILLA SURGAM
1.2KOTTALA POLIMERA GAVI