[manicminer]

Not a discovery. Not a rabbit hole. I grew up 2 miles from the caves/temple and went down the hole pictured many times. There's existing stuff about them online if you Google - not sure why the media is depicting this as a discovery - it's not!

Not sure if the Templar stuff is correct or not - I've seen nothing to corroborate this. Having been in the temple - it certainly seems very old.

The entrance is a hole carved out of the sandstone that you have to squeeze down into - it may look like a rabbit hole but it's not.

Lots of local kids & others know about it and use it as a place to hang out and drink and I'm pretty sure it's used for some sort of New Age rituals judging by the number of candles and detritus that are sometimes in there.

It's a hard place to find if you don't know about it. On private land - completely hidden and it's never really been publicised... until now.

[kristopolous]

Teenagers and children seem to find everything. We may make some significant archeological discoveries with a couple cheap surveys.

[gambiting]

One of the largest caves in Poland was discovered by two teenagers playing in the forest(the English article on wikipedia is very poor,sadly)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Cave

[jacobush]

Same story in Sweden ! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lummelunda_Cave

[oh_sigh]

To be fair, the article didn't tout it as a discovery. It just said that a local man went out to photograph them and shared it with the BBC.

[manicminer]

It did to begin with. BBC changed the article when they realised.