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Elphin Hole

Assynt, Knockan Basin, Sutherland.

Pot.

An 8m climb down through friable and rotten limestone ends where a stream issues out of a choke. Following the water downstream a slope of rubble opens into a fine rift passage. After 50m, jammed boulders dictate a squirm up at roof level where a climb down once again meets spacious passage. This passage then veers to the left - there are high level oxbows in the roof - and descends to a sump pool. [CNCC Cave Guide]

Alternative Names: None recorded.

Notes: Best approached by leaving the A835 at a prominent bend at the south end of Knockan Hamlet and walking straight over the col west of Cnoc a'Choillich Beag. Descend the gentle slope beyond down to an obvious river bed at the foot of the valley. When the river valley is reached, climb 20m up the slope opposite that cave and walk a short distance

northwards until a boat-shaped depression with a bank on its west side is found. A small (possibly overgrown) oval hole in the floor marks the entrance.