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A giant's cauldron (devil's cauldron) is a cavity dug by a stream in the bedrock, in which the water and pebbles swirl, digging, widening and polishing the initial cavity, giving it a quasi-circular shape.
These are cylindrical cavities, often very regular, with smooth, vertical walls, sometimes wider at the bottom than at the top, sometimes completely closed, but sometimes "gutted" on the sides by erosion. Such depressions are found all over the world, in many rivers with a fast current (at least during flood periods) flowing over hard rock.
The formation mechanism generally suggested for these potholes is erosion of the riverbed by swirling pebbles and sand "stuck" in depressions, which they deepen. The following figure explains this mode of formation.

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