Description:

According to tradition, this cave was once a retreat for a saint who was active in Dumfries and Galloway in the late AD 300s. It might also have served as a hermitage linked to the monastery at Whithorn, though some believe it could have been a chapel or even a stone-carving workshop. Over time, rock falls have greatly reduced its size, and it now measures about 7m long, 3m high, and nearly 3m wide at the entrance. Excavations in 1950 uncovered stone walls, pavements, and the disturbed, undated burials of an elderly adult and two children.