Open Cadden N cave

N of Shieldhill, Kinneff, Inverbervie, Aberdeenshire, (Kincardineshire).

NGR:	NO 85843 74834
WGS84:	56.86470, -2.23382
Length:	14 m
Vert. Range:	14 m
Altitude:	4.5 m
Geology:	Gourdon Sandstone Formation
Tags:	Cave, SeaCave
Registry:	main

A tall, short, supratidal cave with a small inner tunnel 6.8 m long, W = 2.5, dH = 4.6, aligned approx N. The cave entrance (at the drip-from-the-top point) is 7.7 m wide.

Alternative Names: None recorded.

Notes: Access: by land in bottom 3/4 of tide. Follow road from the Old Kirkyard to end of tarmac, turn left, keeping burn on right. Follow path to W end of Open Cadden and a fairly steep oblique scramble down.

By sea at high tide. Shingle beach above rocky wave-cut platform. See photo 1.

Note on geology: BGS shows a band of CENTRAL SCOTLAND LATE CARBONIFEROUS THOLEIITIC DYKE SWARM - QUARTZ-MICROGABBRO either over (Canmore) or just W of this location (GSG mapping). Look at the photos - which looked like sandstone to N Feilden. Subject to correction by geologists ...

Links and Resources:

OS dot and an unnamed dotted outline on 1st Ed 25" - shown curving left - which it does not.
Photo 1 looking N at the cave - under Cadden Castle site, from the cliff on the N side of Shield Hill/S side of Open Cadden. Note the sandstone wave-cut platform - an area grazed almost bare by a large number of very prosperous looking limpets. Very few barnacles, and those are tiny.
Photo 2 the cave entrance from the beach immediately to its S.
Photo 1 the inner cave tunnel.

This entry was last updated: 2021-01-23 12:38:57

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