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Gaylet Pot or Geary Pot, a cavern and a natural shaft on the coast of St Vigeans parish, Forfarshire, about a mile S of Auchmithie village. The cavern, piercing the base of a cliff 150 feet high, opens from the sea in a rude archway about 70 feet high and 40 wide, penetrates the land to the distance of 300 feet, and gradually contracts to a minimum height and width of 10 or 12 feet. The shaft opens in the midst of an arable field, goes perpendicularly down to the extremity of the cavern, is proximately circular at the mouth, measures there 150 feet in diameter, and, in its descent to the cavern, has an outline resembling that of an inverted urn. The sea enters the cavern, and takes up to the foot of the shaft the fluctuations of the tide; and when it is urged by an easterly wind, it bursts in at high water with amazing impetuosity, surges and roars with a noise which only the great depth and contractedness of the shaft prevent from being heard at a considerable distance, and then recedes with proportionate violence, and makes a bellowing exit from the cavern's mouth.—Ord. Sur., sh. 57, 1868.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a cavern and a natural shaft" (ADL Feature Type: "caves") |
| Administrative units: | St Vigeans ScoP Angus ScoCnty |
| Place names: | GAYLET POT | GAYLET POT OR GEARY POT | GEARY POT |
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