<< Our Photo Pages >> St Columba's Cave - Cave or Rock Shelter in Scotland in Argyll
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Natural PlacesSite Name: St Columba's CaveCountry: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 4.236 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Argyll Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Map Ref: NR751767
Latitude: 55.930606N Longitude: 5.601932W
Condition:
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4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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The cave has been used on and off since the middle of the Stone Age and St Columba’s font is believed to have been a Stone Age mortar. Some way in, on a rock shelf to your right, is a stone altar and carved on the wall behind is a rustic, but clearly identifiable, cross.
With Loch Caolisport sparkling to your left and the road ahead leaving the loch edge and deteriorating to a 4 wheel drive track, park and to your right just a little way from the road will be the ivy clad ruins of a 13th century chapel. If the bracken isn’t winning, a path will lead through these ruins and on to the base of the cliff and the cave.
In the spring of 2003, the wild yellow azaleas and iris’s greeted us as they may have St Columba. It is an absolutely beautiful place, the silence broken only by the distant call of a cuckoo.
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