r/caves

Ask anything to do with caves or speleology in general, I’ll answer as best I can and point to more resources too, any questions about karst works too but I may not know.

Photos: 1) soda straw. 2) cave bacon. 3) small fault. 4) odd colouration. 5) fluorescent calcite. 6) acicular aragonite. 7) parasitic fold. 8) more bacon. 9) shell. 10) cave salamander. 11) cave rafts. 12) rings in a broken stalagmite. 13-14) acicular aragonite and anthodites. 15) dissolution in action. 16) big fault. 17) cave shield.

Ravlića Pećina (Ravlića Cave) is a large prehistoric cave site located near Peć Mlini in western Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, above the Tihaljina River spring in the municipality of Grude.

It is one of the most important archaeological cave settlements in the region. People lived there from the early Neolithic period (around 5600 BC) until the early Bronze Age, using it as a long-term shelter due to its stable temperature, water access, and strategic location.

Talking Rocks Cavern (Missouri)

Hey everyone! My partner and I recently bought an old, abandoned farmhouse from 1909 in the heart of Tuscany, Italy. We started clearing out the overgrown land and tucked away near the hills we found this massive stone opening leading deep underground.

Stepping inside for the first time felt unreal. It's completely freezing in there, and the walls are made of historic tufo stone. It looks like it has been untouched for decades, and it honestly feels like a piece of hidden history.

We really want to properly clean and restore this cave without ruining its historic character or damaging the old stone. Have any of you done something similar with European properties? Any advice on what to look out for or how to handle old cellars would be much appreciated!

I just happened across this when going through my kit. I recognized the Q but it took some effort and research to find, Live Q or, Die.