King Arthur's Cave

This article is about the cave in Herefordshire. For the cave near Boscastle, Cornwall, see Merlin's Cave.

King Arthur's Cave
The entrance to King Arthur's Cave
LocationLord's Wood, The Doward, Symonds Yat, England
Coordinates51°50′14″N 2°39′42″W / 51.83722°N 2.66167°W / 51.83722; -2.66167

King Arthur's Cave is a limestone cave at the foot of a low cliff at the north-western end of Lord's Wood in The Doward, near Symonds Yat, Herefordshire, about four miles northeast of Monmouth, in the Wye Valley. The cave entrance lies about 285 feet above the River Wye on a hill,[1] with a double interconnected entrance and two main chambers. It is protected as a nature reserve under the Herefordshire Nature Trust. There is evidence that the cave was occupied by man during the Upper Palaeolithic era, and flint tools and woolly mammoth bones have been unearthed within and around the caves.[2][3]

  1. ^ The Antiquarian. E.W. Allen. 1871. p. 164. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
  2. ^ "KING ARTHUR'S CAVE – THE DOWARD". Wyenot.com. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
  3. ^ Painter, K. S. (1964). The Severn Basin. Cory, Adams & Mackay. pp. 14–19. Retrieved 26 March 2012.