Summitville Cave - Coffee County, Tenn

[UnderGroundEarth]

Finally, this family can have some closure.

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2013 ... -wearing-/

[Larry E. Matthews]

This does not sound like the same Summitville Cave that is in the Tennessee Cave Survey. Somebody needs to follow up on this and see if it is a previously unreported cave. Or, we may know it by another name.

The one I explored, perhaps 20 years ago, has a spring entrance in sight of the main highway (Highway 55). We went in during a drought, and it immediately opened up into walking passage and we never reached the end.

Larry E. Matthews
NSS #6792-F

[tncaver]

Larry, that woman was actually found in the Summitville limestone quarry and the media has been calling it a cave. It is (or was) possible
to drive around inside that quarry. Several years ago I found a pit that intersects the mine and it is reported to the TCS. The cave you
found probably goes under the quarry or near it.