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Inikler Cave - Stremski Maze

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Cave Inikler ( Stremski Maze ) is located behind the pine plantation of about 2.4 km. from village Stremtsi , by going on the road to the town of Kardzhali . The cave is a horizontal maze of galleries easily accessible , hence the name. Has long been known to the local population .

Inikler cave is actually a preserved Roman mining galleries . Located about 200 meters left of the road Kardzhali - Haskovo, shortly after the dams between the villages of Rani list and Stremtsi . Have multiple inputs that are connected in depth . At the crest of the hill with traces of vertical mine workings , probably served for ventilation. Widespread belief that it is an ancient mine for organized gold mining . The total length of the galleries is about 460 m mine workings were cut in a very strong rocks without the use of fasteners and follow rudonosnata conductors and therefore resemble a maze . At the end of the gallery there is a small lake. The area has traces of ancient rings, evidence that the primary selection of the extracted material was on the spot. Under way on the slopes of the nearby ravine also has several wells , but the area is overgrown with bushes and difficult to locate. The cave system is reached by stone trodden path that leads to the village of Scree . Above are observed inputs .

Today a visitor left scratching Log in preserved inputs available in galleries. A whole hillside was literally drilled with a dense network of tunnels.

In most places where one can move straight and could easily get lost in the maze of galleries. In the age of the Pleistocene it was the bed of an underground river with extremely rich nugget sands. Later it was buried , and gradually form a rock .

Work future prospectors and miners consisted in breaking the gravel of this scale and washing it off in a nearby river . Outsourcing of crushed stone table was going through dozens of artificially drilled vertical chimneys, which can be seen near the holes for lifting gear pulleys . While chimneys served and for introducing oxygen into the underground adit . Broken rock is washed with special equipment , and traces of discards unnecessary rubble still visible today.

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