Staffa Rock Shelter [4]

Staffa, Port an Fhasgaidh, Argyllshire.

NGR:	NM 32379 35428
WGS84:	56.43489, -6.34296
Length:	5 m
Vert. Range:	1.4 m
Altitude:	0 m
Geology:	Mull Lava Group - Basalt
Tags:	Cave, SeaCave, SSSI, NNR
Registry:	main

At base of high basalt cliff at north end of Port an Fhasgaidh. Rock Shelter 4 (NM 32379,35428 surveyed by Tony Boycott) roughly triangular slot, 7.9 m wide, 5.0 m deep & 1.4 m high (reducing to nothing) at base of cliff. Visible upper section within irregular basalt of lower entablature, lower section concealed by rocks & pebbles. Other similar features [to Rock Shelters 1, 2 & 4] appear along shore but none of any depth. Any one of these features may have been mistaken for a cave by the Ordnance Survey, if only viewing coast from a boat, resulting in misplaced MacKinnon's Cave (NM 32372 35481), on the 1876 map, previously referred to as Potential Un-named Cave 2. Rock Shelter 4 is closest to the marked coordinates.

Alternative Names: None recorded.

Hydrographic Feeds: Sea of the Hebrides, Port an Fhasgaidh

Links and Resources:

GSG Bulletin 4th Series, Vol. 2, No. 5 (March 2006), pp. 38-51. Crae, John, 2005, Ossianic Endeavours.
GSG Bulletin 4th Series, Vol. 3, No. 2 (March 2007), pp. 43-52. Crae, John, 2006, Updating Ossian.

This entry was last updated: 2024-08-26 17:35:20

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