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Jedburgh Cave

Jedburgh, Hundalee, Roxburghshire.

Rock Cut Chamber, Vestigial. . NT61NW 10 6465 1850. (NT 6465 1850) Hundalee Cave (NR). Hundalee cave is inaccessible but it is said to have consisted of 'three apartments, one on each hand of the entrance, and a larger one behind, which had the appearance of a great room'.

The cave could accommodate about one hundred persons. ). RCAHMS 1956. This cave, still inaccessible, is reputed to have been used to store grain from Hondalee Mill during the Border Raids.

Vestiges of caves appear on the banks of the River Jed. particularly 2 large caves at Hundalee and Linthaughlee. From steepness of the bank almost inaccessible but described by old persons as consisting of three apartments one on each hand of the entrance and a larger one behind with the appearance of a great room. Probably used as hiding places upon the sudden incursion of their English neighbours. [OSA]

At Hundalee Lintalee and Mossburnford there are caves dug out of the rock in the banks of the Jed which in former times were used for concealing property and as places of refuge That at Lintalee is in the face of the precipice below the camp and is now inaccessible The Hundalee cave consists of three apartments a large one with a smaller on each side. [NSA]

Hundalee Cave, on the bank of the Jed, disappeared through a landslip in 1866 and March 1881. [Ordnance Gazetteer] Possibly refers to Lintalee Cave as Jedburgh or Bruce's Cave at Huntalee is still there.

A now roughly circular entrance high on the cliff above the Jed Water enters a 1.7-2.3 m high rectangular chamber (the floor slopes down so it is higher at the back) cut into friable sandstone (horizontal beds 25-40 mm thick). The entrance was obviously smaller and squarer but the door jambs have eroded. The ceiling height is gradually increasing as successive bands of stone collapse leaving debris on the floor. Narrow gaps in the side walls lead to roughly rounded chambers on the north and south sides. The chamber to the south is 1.9 m high. The north chamber is 2.9 m high.

Alternative Names: Bruce's Cave [3], Hundalee Cave, Douglas Cave, Black Douglas (Cave of the)

Notes: Information from J C Brown, Hundalee, Nr Jedburgh. Surveyed at 1/2500. Visited by OS (RD) 6 February 1967.

See also Lintalee Cave [2165]. Description of cave identical - taken from single entry in OSA.

Some sources confuse the two caves calling them Bruce's Cave and Douglas Cave (or the Cave of the Black Douglas)

Hydrographic Feeds: None

Hydrographic Resurgences: None