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Fern Cave

W of Covesea Village, Lossiemouth, Moray, (Elginshire).

A barely supratidal cave system with a wide entrance facing W by N. It is just E of the Double Mouthed Cave. The ceiling is quite high to begin with, but steps down and narrows, before widening at kneeling crawl height. The longest extension is on the left and which curves right.

There was a congregation of cave spiders in this low bit, as well as a lot of ferns in horizontal joints on the ceiling and low on the right.

There is a small hole ca 3 m up, which connects to a mildly sloping cavelet with a tiny pillar in its middle. It faces NNW; is 4.3 m wide and 3 m long and 0.73 m bottom to ceiling. The connection through the hole to the main cave is 1.2 m long.

Alternative Names: None recorded.

Notes: Access: Either W from Covesea village, or E from the old Coastguard lookout to a point near NJ 18513 70919 where the path goes W for 170 m or so to a lower path, from which you can go either way, but in this case W and in the bottom half of the tide.

Altitude is above Chart Datum and is a visual estimate.

The name Fern Cave was given on 14/3/22 by N Feilden.