Unidentified Damaged cable

[AliNaseem2]

During excavation an underground cable was damaged, the cable had no markers, no one has claimed ownership of the cable as of yet.

I believe the cable is very old and already decommissioned, the client want us to perform a test weather the cable is connected somewhere or not and trace its source, the thing is the area is very remote & our crew cannot understand where the cable could be coming from.

On top of that it is some old type of communication (our guess) we couldn't identify.

See the attached pictures.

Need some help & guidance.

 

[Comcokid]

Four coaxial RF cables and several smaller wires (low-level power for remote amplifiers?) all in a single cable. Something left over from a time before satellites and fiber optics? Abandon telephone telecommunications cable? I have no idea.

 

[PHovnanian]

You could call an electrical contractor that does underground fault location and cable repair. Have them bring out a cable location set (the kind that injects a signal into a conductor) and then trace it to its end points.