North Seals Cave

Long Craig, S of Bullers of Buchan, N of Cruden Bay, Aberdeenshire.

NGR:	NK 11149 37728
WGS84:	57.42976, -1.81598
Length:	92 m
Vert. Range:	23 m
Altitude:	-10.9 m
Geology:	Peterhead Granite
Tags:	Cave, SeaCave
Registry:	main

A fairly large seacave 10.6m wide at its entrance, facing NE. This narrows to 4.5m at 36m in and then widens, mainly on the S side to 12.8m. At 70m in it is 9.7m wide and 4.2m BCD deep. It narrows down again to 4.3m at 81m.

Alternative Names: None recorded.

Notes: Access: by sea only. It can be safely entered in more NE swell than either South Seals or Petrie's Hole immediately to the south.

Links and Resources:

OS 1st Ed 25 in
bullersofbuchan.me.uk/names.htm
Length survey 19 Sep 20 by Nigel Feilden.
Photo 1 entrances of North and South Seals seacaves. North Seals is on the right.
Photo 2 entrance from closer.
Photo 3 looking inward from just inside the entrance on 19 Sep 20.
Photo 4 shows the end of the wider part of the cave on 19 Sep 20. The tunnel continues to an, as yet, unmeasured extent to a beach.

This entry was last updated: 2021-07-08 11:22:15

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