The upper entrance to the cave is situated in the side of a small cliff about 35 metres North of the Knave and just above a small rising.
Description
Two triangular openings lead to a narrow passage with heavy deposits of moon milk. This passage leads to a small chamber. To the left is another small chamber and beyond a steeply descending rift leads to a window overlooking the sea cave. To the right of the main chamber is a narrow passage which leads through a squeeze to a chamber with the remains of sand filled gours. At the end a calcite slope leads to the sea cave.
History
Ned Cunnington, killed in WWI, was an early explorer and he is commemorated in this inscription: This cave – a secret by the family shared – was bequeathed to it
by Ned Cunnington who first, alone, it’s dark entrance had dared in nineteen nine /
now twenty years gone, /
that many secrets of the earth be hid /
it does sufficiently and well expound. Let others – as he, depths and darkness did – /
go forth, explore into the dreadful ground. /
To us this cave is sacred to the name /
of him who, we believe, first entered it, /
who was liked well and – at his very prime – who /
to fight in the great war and fall in it /
and we would have this grandly entranced cave /
unimpaired, fitting monument....grave.....cave.....
; Gower Caving Society 1964; Gower Caving Club
Hydrology
Conservation
SSSI: 0809 Gower Coast: Rhossili to Porteynon (Mixed/M)
Gallery
Brendan Marris 2011
Survey
Gower Caving Club 1990
References
Caves in Wales and the Marches (Dalesman), Jenkins, D.W. & Williams, A.M., 1963. Location description and brief details.
South Wales Evening Post, 29/30th April 1964, [Glenn Jones & Peter Chislett], Strange Find in a Gower Cave
Davies, M, 1993, Caves of the South Gower Coast: an archaeological assessment
