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Mercavity Cave

Main Wall, Avon Gorge.

Situated 35m above ground level in the face of the main climbing wall and reached by a steep path. A roomy passage descends steeply to a complete mud choke, where an excavated shaft (now collapsed), once yielded a tiny series of sand-filled passages. A tube (currently blocked) can be followed to a second chamber, with an impassable aven in the roof. Smoke rising here has been seen to emerge from a small bramble-filled hole located just below the iron spike that terminates the climb known as Depravity.

Alternative Names: Macavity Cave

Notes: SU1 p.50