CM3

A wide mouthed intertidal cave with a stumpy pillar on E side of main entrance with a smaller second entrance on its E side. The W entrance is 20.8 m wide while the E entrance is 11.8 m wide and floor to ceiling 3 m. Faces about NW by N. It is 22.8 m from front to back in the main entrance - the rest being the passage on the E side of the pillar.

Although obvious from the sea (looking in SE quadrant), it cannot be seen from the land.

Notes: Access: At low tide: from Cummingston Seaview Rd carpark, go down to the old railway line (tarmac'd), follow it left under a bridge and then for about 200m until the cutting drops away to a beach. Go down to beach and then E. It is necessary go go round a headland before you can see it.

VR is an estimate as it got missed out on 27/2/22 when the other dimensions were measured.

Links and Resources:

Not noted on OS.
Photo 1 seen from the sea on 14 Nov 20, this cave is on the right, and seen obliquely. The pillar on the left can just be made out.
Photo 2 inside looking to SW corner from near the W side of the pillar.
Photo 3 inside looking NE from SW corner. Shows the pillar in the right half, which is sharply under-cut on its SW side.
Photo 4 looking about WNW along back wall from about 1/3 of the way from the SW corner.
Photo 5 looking SSE from inside the E entrance. Note the rockpool at the base of the pillar. The rock is actively flaking off the ceiling here, but not obviously so in the main part of the cave.

This entry was last updated: 2022-03-08 16:51:00

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NGR:	NJ 13126 69170
WGS84:	57.70391, -3.45940
Length:	29 m
Vert. Range:	6 m
Altitude:	2 m
Geology:	Hopeman Sandstone Formation
Tags:	Cave, SeaCave
Registry:	main

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