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Natural PlacesSite Name: The Devil's Nest (Pirunpesä) Alternative Name: Giant Kettle Pirunpesä, Giant Kettle Pirunpesä, Devil's Nest (Pirunpesa)Country: Finland Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Pirunpesä Nearest Village: Yli-valli
Latitude: 62.399056N Longitude: 22.895472E
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 |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
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 |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Natural feature near Pirunpesä, Finland
Similar to the Käpylä Hiidenkirnu, the Devil's Kettle, near Helsinki, this natural feature has been created by glacial action over many hundreds of thousands of years – it has repeatedly been hollowed out, filled with sediment then hollowed out again by the ice.
Measuring 14 metres wide by 23 metres deep, the Devil’s Nest is Europe’s largest eroded cavity, although there is currently debate as to whether or not this pit might be a natural outlet for water or gas rather than just the result of cycles of glacial erosion (or maybe a combination of all these processes).
Located in the village Yli-valli in the municipality of Jalasjärvi in Southern Ostrobothnia, further information can be found at Wikipedia and photos on Flickr.
There are no records of any archaeological finds during excavations. Many thanks to Martti Lahti who provided the initial information to create this page - see further comments below for the folklore attached to the creation of the name 'The Devil's Nest'.
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