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Window Cave

Steep Holm.

NGR:ST 2281 6052
WGS84:51.33851, -3.10950
Length:23 m
Depth:5 m
Altitude:3 m
Tags:Cave
Registry:westmendip

Consists of a rift about 1m wide running parallel to the shore. From the entrance it is necessary to climb a boulder pile some 3m high to reach the window overlooking the sea. This is a hole in the cliff face about 2m by 1m.

Alternate Names: Smugglers' Cave [1]

Notes: About 300m west of the Jetty on the south shore at the base of the cliffs, about 100m west of the Barracks and east of Split Rocks. Alt name Smugglers' Cave [1] Bristol Evening Post 31 May 1935 photograph printed in reverse.

Surveys:
Window Cave, Steepholme, Sneddon, B.W., Ladd, C.A., Ellis, B.M., 1963

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