SOUTH CAVE
This “cave” hardly deserves the name of cave, but as previous writers gave it this designation the title is retained in this description.
The cave is situated immediately under South Enclosure A, and it opens on to the actual brink of the south precipice, being approached from both west and east sides by a path built along the top slope of the precipice. It is formed by a large boulder 16 ft. high and 17 ft. long, and is between this boulder and the top of the precipice, the floor being the natural rock of the declivity. It recedes but 3 ft. to 6 ft. under the boulder and is 7 ft. wide. It is 5 ft. high on the outside and only 1 ft. 6 in. to 2 ft. at its innermost part. It has been thoroughly cleaned out, but nothing of any antiquarian value was found. The boulder beetles outwards towards the face of the precipice.
Immediately in front of this cave and on the south side and at 4 ft. distance a wall averaging 8 ft. in height runs for 37 ft. towards the west. The boulder which forms the cave beetles outwards over this wall, and judging by the block débris, the wall was once continued up to, and connected with, the rock above. This wall at its western extremity has a well-built rounded end in a good state of preservation.
On the north side and starting at 10 ft. from the cave and running west for 46 ft. is a wall 8 ft. high with a rounded end at its eastern extremity. It starts from the face of the boulder forming the cave, and is continued until it reaches the interior of the Western Temple.
These two walls form a passage averaging a width of 4 ft., though at the end of the south wall it narrows to 2 ft. 6 in. In the passage are traces of granite cement steps. This passage on entering the Western Temple is directly end on with the Parallel Passage, which is on the inside of the main south wall and is separated from it only by the gap in the outer wall, the main wall having at this point fallen down the precipice and taken with it the side wall of the passage from the cave. It is almost certain that this passage was but the extension of the Parallel Passage.
On the eastern side of the cave is a built-up space between the boulder forming the cave and another boulder further east which beetles parallel to the precipice for 13 ft. This wall is 10 ft. high and is 6 ft. across.
The path to the east passes under this outer and beetling boulder, and between the outer side of South Enclosure A and the edge of the precipice, but here it is so much dilapidated by wall débris falling from above, that the safer approach to the cave is from the Western Temple.
On the summits of these two large boulders are traces of a substantial wall once having been carried across them.