Szelim cave

The Szelim cave is positioned in North western Hungary on the margin of the western Gerecse Mountains, 289 m 948 feet above the through-Valley reaches close to Tatabanya town. The cave interior is 45 m 148 toes long and 14 m forty six ft high. The web page has been frequently frequented and used as a refuge through local villagers over the centuries is effortlessly handy and its huge square entrance functions a memorial of the Turul. The cave changed into recognized as an archaeological site only fairly past due. In 1932 Hubert Kessler, the primary promoter of speleological research, started excavations.

The results of Kessler paintings advocated Istvan Gaal to start ordinary excavations. In 1934 the Natural History Research Council furnished - despite the fact that insufficient - the monetary method for similarly paintings. Remains of hearths, stoves, carvings, animal bones and human remains, a number of which date to the era of Turkish invasions in early modernity have been excavated.