Kecske Hole

The Kecske Hole is a cavelet located in the Danube–Ipoly National Park at Pomáz, in the Moonlight Ditch.

Description

It is located in a smaller diabase rock group next to the steep western path leading to the summit of the Great Rock that includes the Weislich Cave. About 30 metres west of the upper, vaulted entrance of the Weislich Cave, at roughly the same height, the cavelet faces south; its mouth is 80 centimetres wide and 130 centimetres high.

The entrance is followed by a single, partial chamber 2.7 metres long. Its height inside is already 2.3 metres and from the chamber a branch opens to the right above, so together the cavity is 3.2 metres long. Its floor consists of loose rock debris.

In 1993 the cavity was first called Kecske Hole in the literature.

Research history

The first written mention of the cavity was by Kornél Budai. The first written reference to the cavity dates from 1991. In the manuscript titled *The Lajstroma of Hungary’s Non‑Karst Caves* written by István Eszterhás and dated 1993, it is stated that the Kecske Hole is located in the Visegrád Mountains, in the 4900 plot of the cave survey area, at Pomáz. The cave formed in a diabase breccia is 2.5 m long and 2 m high. The compilation lists the 520 objects (478 caves and 42 artificial cavities) formed in non‑karst rock in Hungary that were known up to the end of 1993. In Hungary, 12 caves or artificially created, cave‑named cavities have formed in diabase breccia. In the Visegrád Mountains, 33 caves have formed in non‑karst rock.

In 1997, István Eszterhás and his team located and processed the semi-cave in detail during their speleological survey. The manuscript bibliography of Hungarian karst caves, dated November 12, 2001, includes the Kecske-lyuk in its cave name index. The cave name index lists three literary works that deal with the cavity. Items 364 and 366 do not mention it, items 363 and 365 do mention it. The study published in the 2014 Karst Development notes states that on the right side of the Pomáz Moonlight Trench, under collapsed stone blocks, there is an inter-block semi-cave, the Kecske-lyuk. The cave located in Pomáz is 3.2 m long and 3.3 m high. It is one of the 101 caves of the Visegrád Mountains.