SPIDER CAVE, Sani Gad, 2nd

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

A more than 1 m high cave entrance of unknowable width is shown to face an unspecified direction (DUCLUZAUX 1993d: 31 -grotte 5 coupe- elevation) and to gives access to about 12 m of accessible cave passages in the 5th and last of the nameless grottes aux araignées or Grottes des Araignées (DUCLUZAUX 1993d: 30, 31). SITUATION: The cave entrance to the 5th cave was understood to lie in an unidentified spatial relation to each of the other four of the altogether five known caves or cave entrances which all lie at unspecified locations at an altitude of 1450 m (DUCLUZAUX 1993d: 31) somewhere above the rive gauche (left bank) of a stream called Suni Gad (DUCLUSAUX 1993d: 30) or Sani Gad (±500 m N29°21'49”: E080°48'40” Central Service Map 68 Bajhang, 1989). CAVE DESCRIPTION: The relatively small, about 1 m high entrance to the fifths cave leads to an about 2 m or 3 m long ascending cave passage, which ascends to a blind end while a lateral 2 m crawl gives access to the upper part of analtogether 8 m high dome-pit with a stone covered floor and two boyau horizontal (cave passage, roundish in cross-section) at elevation of roughly -1 m and -3 m below to floor level in the cave entrance. CAVE LIFE: Unspecified araignées ont plus de 5 cm de diamètre (DUCLUZAUX 1993d: 32) or, perhaps, a far western Nepal species of giant crab spider genus of the huntsman spider sub-family (Arachnidae: Aranea: Sparassidae: conf. Heteropoda sp.).