Caractacus' Cave

[James Davies MAMC]

Near the top of Caer Caradoc, south Shropshire, lies the so called Caractacus Cave, now I'm currently having a debate on Facebook about this one, I see a mine trial level, another chap is arguing it's entirely natural, a brief dive into Google reveals it's most likely a man made trial/ shelter cut into volcanic basalt and not anywhere near as old as legend implies, other than this I can't really find much else, I did wonder if armchair would show anything but nada.
I wondered if any of you fine folks would be able to shed any more light on it.

Also here's a link to a write up shared by the OP on Facebook:

Caractacus Cave

When my partner and I first started hanging out, we decided to head up Caer Caradoc to find the famous cave of Caractacus, built into the ro...

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Now I've got "The Court of King Caractacus" going through my head... My impression is that this is man-made, making use of layering in the basalt to help driving but no idea whether it's a trial for something - maybe there was a quartz vein in the basalt and someone was hoping for gold in it?

 

[James Davies MAMC]

Now I've got "The Court of King Caractacus" going through my head... My impression is that this is man-made, making use of layering in the basalt to help driving but no idea whether it's a trial for something - maybe there was a quartz vein in the basalt and someone was hoping for gold in it?

Oh dear haha
But yes I've no idea what they would have been looking for, it could even merely be a shelter, maybe for food storage? Just above here is the hillfort, seems alot of work for that though...

 

[James Davies MAMC]

Maybe a wonder up there sometime is in order