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The cave is tied closely to a branch of Flintstone Creek and reappears as a large spring and tributary to Murley Branch. Devils Den developed in the top part of the Tonoloway limestone. [3] Devil's Hole - Located in the Keyser Member of the Helderberg limestone, this cave can be found one mile north of Twiggtown.
Diagram of Devils Hole Cave (1988) Located 650 feet (200 m) north of Devils Hole is a separate cave system called Devils Hole Cave (#2). It was first explored underwater to a depth of 70 feet (21 m) by divers from the Southwestern Speleological Society in February 1961.
The cave, part of the Mill Cave System, drains Grassy Cove, which is the largest sinkhole in North America. It contains numerous instances of Mississippian era Native American cave art. The entrance is 125 feet by 150 feet. [1] The cave stream forms the nearby Head of Sequatchie spring, the source of the Sequatchie River. [2]
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The cave is essentially horizontal throughout its extent and the passages are typically high and narrow. A great deal of brown and red clay fills most of the cave to a considerable extent; the commercial tour routes involved the removal of up to 4–6 feet (1.2–1.8 m) of this clay in 900 feet (270 m) of the passages.
Caves are often associated with legends and superstitions of all kinds, dragons, sorcerers and devils like the Quebec caves called fairy hole, devil's hole or bottomless hole. On the Devil's Hole cave of Saint-Casimir, it is said that: The stream was used to quench the thirst of the damned. The noises heard inside the cave were those of souls ...
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Historically the cave was known as the Devil's Arse, under which name it is described in William Camden's Britannia of 1586: ...there is a cave or hole within the ground called, saving your reverence, The Devils Arse, that gapeth with a wide mouth and hath in it many turnings and retyring roomes, wherein, for sooth, Gervase of Tilbury, whether for want of knowing the truth, or upon a delight ...