Tag: cave
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The Priest’s Hole
The view from the Priest’s Hole, a cave high on the side of Dove Crag and long-established bivouac but so especially since the BBC included it on their series “Secret Britain“. Access can be a little tricky and there has been at least one fatality as a result of the programme. When I was there,…
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Kirkdale Cave
Whilst Cleveland basked in the winter sunshine, the Tabular Hills were covered in a grey corrugated duvet of low wet cloud. I had parked in Fadmoor for a circular wander along dry valleys and field tracks aiming to visit Kirkdale Cave. I’ve never actually seen the cave before and I don’t suppose any bones of…
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Linn Caves of Baldernock
In the Lennox Hills just north of Glasgow. A sylvan waterfall behind which are man made caves from limestone extraction. Although the caves go in some distance it seems to have been a low key extraction with kilns nearby burning local coal to make lime for agricultural use. Heading north tomorrow. I will be incommunicado…
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Thor’s Cave
The abode of the god of thunder, or maybe just a corruption of the word “tor” meaning hill. Evidence has been found that man’s earliest ancestors were here well before the last ice age, over 50,000 years ago. Bones, human as well as animal bones, long extinct bear, giant deer, wooly rhinoceros and lion have…
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Cushendun Caves
On the Antrim coast. It was the young scion’s idea. A cycling tour of Northern Ireland. Great. He put the itinerary together. Great; castles and rugged scenery. Or so I thought. Turns out the Game of Thrones TV series was filmed in Northern Ireland and our itinerary happens to pick up several of its locations.…