Remete-hegyi No 2 Cave, Limestone cave in Remeteszőlős, Hungary.
Remete-hegyi No 2 Cave is a limestone cave in the Buda Hills extending about 44 meters long with a depth reaching about 15 meters. The entrance sits roughly 10 meters above the creek bed within the white limestone hillside.
In 1877 Lóczy Lajos gave the Hungarian National Museum an animal lower jaw, two bones and three potsherds from a rock hollow near Remetemária. In 1904 these were judged probable Stone Age dwelling places. Leél-Őssy Sándor presented the gorge's caves to the Hungarian Hydrological Society in 1949, dating the now dry, high-lying spring caves to the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene.
The cave lies in the Remete-szurdok, a gorge named for the hermits (remeték) associated with Remetemária. Lóczy Lajos gave rough potsherds from the rock hollows near Remetemária to the Hungarian National Museum in 1877, and these were later linked to a probable Neolithic dwelling site. The cave itself was first called Remete-hegyi 2. sz. barlang in the literature in 1984.
You can reach the cave entrance by following marked trails from the Szirom Street or Zsíroshegyi Street bus stops. The paths are well-marked and the site is accessible to those with basic hiking ability.
The cave sits in the middle cave level of Remete Gorge, about 70 metres above the valley floor at 340–350 metres elevation, while its entrance is near 330 metres. Geologist Leél-Őssy Sándor dated these now-dry spring caves to the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene; later tectonic uplift and a falling karst water table left them abandoned.
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