Horseshoe Mid cave

NGR:	NO 66054 41106
WGS84:	56.56069, -2.55390
Length:	3.4 m
Vert. Range:	1.5 m
Altitude:	5 m
Geology:	Mostly Scone with some Burnside Sandstone Formations
Tags:	Cave, SeaCave
Registry:	main

A short, low and wide (6.0 m), just intertidal cave facing south. It is a little east of the middle of Horseshoe Bay.

Notes: Access: From the E end of Victoria Park, in the bottom half of the tide, onto the foreshore and past Whiting Ness.

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Not recorded on OS.
The OS Namebook records a cave - but places it at the west end of Horseshoe Bay. This is much more obviously a cave than the rockshelter in that location - see entry for Horseshoe (W) Cave.
Photo 1 viewed from afloat on 14 Aug 21.
Photo 2 shows the entrance to this cave as the obvious one on the left of centre, and obliquely from this camera location..
Photo 3 from close to. The plaque over the left edge of the entrance reads 'Tam Forbes 1956-2011'.

This entry was last updated: 2022-02-20 13:40:47

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