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Barberry Cave, with a length of 3.4 miles, was discovered by a dig in a sinkhole. The entrance series was tight and time-consuming so a second entrance was excavated. The main part of the cave, with large well-decorated passages, was discovered through a low, easily flooded crawlway. Following an incident of explorers trapped by rising water, a third entrance was achieved by excavating a shaft from the surface into the large passage of the cave. Barberry Cave has some of the largest and best decorated passages in the Burnsville Cove. The Cave is located between the Chestnut Ridge caves and the Butler Cave-Sinking Creek System although no physical connections have been discovered.
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Schwartz, B.F., Davis, N.W. (2015). Exploration of Barberry Cave and the Construction of Big Bucks Pit. In: White, W. (eds) The Caves of Burnsville Cove, Virginia. Cave and Karst Systems of the World. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14391-0_10
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