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Multi-periodSite Name: Wyandotte CaveCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 31.41 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Nearest Town: Corydon, Indiana Nearest Village: Leavenworth, Indiana
Latitude: 38.228000N Longitude: 86.296W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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bat400 visited on 1st Jan 1997 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4
Minerals quarried included Epsom salts (scraped from the rock walls with wooden paddles.) calcite (split from flowstone columns using antlers driven into cracks created by oak fires,) and most importantly, "Harrison" chert (crypto-crystalline quartz or fibrous chalcedony.) Tools made from Harrison chert have been found throughout southern Indiana and northern Kentucky.
Aside from the evidence of the mining itself, dried oak torches and torches made from hickory bark made up into bundles with twists of grape vine have been found in the cave. Tests with modern replicas indicate that these torches gave 5-7 hours of light.
Although Wyandotte Cave (and a smaller nearby cave) was purchased by the state from private owners, Department of Natural Resources found it difficult to manage the cave in addition to the rest of the Harrison-Crawford property. Now tours in the two caves are run for the state by a firm specializing in "show" cave management. Several tours are available (see the link, below.) The caves are closed in the winter months to protect several species of bat that hibernate within.
Wyandotte Caves website
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