Gaylet Pot West Cave [3]

An intertidal sea cave at the foot of cliffs south-west of Gaylet Pot near Auchmithie.

It has a wide (9.9 m), tall and quite short funnel entrance. There is a large, quite long rock dividing the entrance unequally. This narrows down to a quite narrow (2.8 m wide x 8.8 m dH) rift cave with a shallow pool, but with extremely slippery, rounded boulders covered in a pale coffee mud. It faces nearly due S. The end curves round to the left, but this was not measured on 23/4/22 because of the pool and the mud.

Notes: Access: As for Dark Cave, in bottom 1/3 of tide. Go through the Dark Cave, to the end of the pebble beach and carry on round the rocky foreshore as far as you can go.

Links and Resources:

Forfarshire Sheet XLVII.NW (includes: Arbroath and St Vigeans; Inverkeilor), Publication date: 1903 Date revised: 1901.
Forfarshire XLVII.5 (St Vigeans), Survey date: 1859 Publication date: 1862.
Pastmap.
Photo 1 An oblique aerial view looking over Gaylet Pot, towards high tide. This cave is in the middle at the bottom. The dividing rock can be made out with the pimple that can be seen in photo 2, high and right.
Photo 2 cave entrance looking along W, shallower and wider channel past the dividing rock on R (E). Note pimple on the dividing rock high and right which can be made out in photo 1.
Photo 3 looking out along the E side of the dividing rock. Taken at 15:51 BST on 23/4/22, the tide level was about 2 m ACD.
Photo 4 looking out along the W side of the dividing rock. There is a vertical quartz vein on the right (W) wall which is about where the drip line of the entrance is, and from where the length was measured.
Photo 5 looking into the narrower, rift part of the cave.
Photo 6 looking towards the end of the cave. The pool is below the bottom of the photo. The LRF was used to measure as far as the triangular outline which is 42.2 m inside. It curves to the left after that and was visually estimated to be 3-5 m more, but that may be an underestimate. The cobbles were round and extremely slippery - covered with a coffee cream coloured mud and rather uninviting.

This entry was last updated: 2022-04-26 20:29:46

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NGR:	NO 67735 43172
WGS84:	56.57936, -2.52681
Length:	46 m
Vert. Range:	13 m
Altitude:	2 m
Geology:	Scone Sandstone Formation
Tags:	Cave, SeaCave
Registry:	main

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