trotter cave

Terrain

General Condition

Tin-Pet Cave is located at the foot of the foot of the foothills of the trotters of the east side. (Near to the north) Khao trotters is a small oval shaped limestone hill. Positioned in the northeast - southwest direction, about 300 meters long, about 150 meters wide, about 18 kilometers west of the Gulf of Thailand, with a canal flowing through the west side of the mountain. (Khlong Phet Phet is about 150 meters west from Khao Tin Ped)

The mouth of the cave has two mouths, the northern mouth of the cave and the southern cave entrance. The two caves are about 5 meters apart and lead into the same booth, which is the Big Booth of the Tipet Cave. There is only one booth but there are nooks and crannies inside that were originally used by monks as a place of introspection and where there are many bats. The area between the mouths of the two caves houses a toilet made of brick blocks.

In the middle of the cave is a pile of rock collapse and a spring pond where villagers and monks have built a cement pond around the spring water point that villagers believe is a holy well and stretched canvas over the bat pond. causing the big booths of the trotters to be divided into 2 booths (according to the mouth of the cave) which are the North Booth and the South Booth.

The north side booth is currently the residence of monks and enshrines a Buddha image (present day). The sloped cave floor is cement floor with tools and utensils used for the monks' daily life. At the entrance of the cave, there is 1 firewood stove and 2 water tanks made of cement. The ceiling and walls of the cave are thickly covered with black smoke from the furnace construction.

The mouth of the cave on the south side is narrow and high, the mouth of the cave has a toilet made of brick blocks. The southern booths are empty spaces and caves for introspection. The slopes of the caves are cement floors. There is quite a thick pile of bat droppings. The entrance to some caves has a closed wooden door as the entrance.

Foothills of the foothills of the foothills is the garden area of ​​the villagers and the vegetable garden of the monks who live in the foothills of the foothills cave. There was a pile of rocks falling in some places.

Height above mean sea level

Waterway

Tha Sae Canal, Tha Sae River, Bang Thalai Canal

Geological conditions

Khao trotters is a single limestone mountain. in the Ratchaburi rock group Permian period (approximately 286-245 million years old) (Department of Mineral Resources 2007)

Archaeological Era

era/culture

Types of archaeological sites

archaeological essence

A survey of the Fine Arts Department in the past (Department of Fine Arts 2022) found evidence of prehistoric archeology such as 145 pieces of earthenware fragments, terracotta pots that were fired at low temperatures, coarse-grained, with grains of sand mixed in the soil. It is assumed that this cave is a temporary habitat for prehistoric humans.

But from the survey on the soil surface of the cave at the Sirindhorn Anthropology Center in 2013, no artifacts were found. Perhaps due to the factors entering the area of ​​monks and enshrining Buddha images (modern days), the soil surface is always cleaned. Moreover, the sloping cave floor is cement