{"id":4389,"date":"2015-12-11T21:20:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T21:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/?p=4389"},"modified":"2023-06-19T09:17:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T09:17:23","slug":"clutters-cave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/2015\/12\/clutters-cave\/","title":{"rendered":"Clutters Cave"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-bodycopy clearfix\">\n<div class=\"post-bodycopy clearfix\">\n<div id=\"attachment_4639\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4639\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4639\" src=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Photo-2.-Clutters-cave-12-Feb-2009-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Clutters Cave, Malvern Hills \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Photo-2.-Clutters-cave-12-Feb-2009-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Photo-2.-Clutters-cave-12-Feb-2009-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Photo-2.-Clutters-cave-12-Feb-2009-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Photo-2.-Clutters-cave-12-Feb-2009.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4639\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clutters Cave, Malvern Hills<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Geological Overview<b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/strong>South of British camp on the Malvern Hills just below the west side of the ridge is a man made cave, Clutter\u2019s Cave or Giant\u2019s Cave. This has been excavated into pillow lavas. Almost 600 million years ago a volcano erupted under the sea. It was cooled by the cold sea water and a solid crust formed around globules of lava, which were piled up as more lava erupted. Though they have since been deformed by Earth movements some of the rounded \u2018pillow\u2019 shapes can still be seen around the entrance to the cave.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here there are also beautiful views over the Herefordshire countryside and from the ridge over the valley of the River Severn to the Cotswolds<\/p>\n<p><b>Location<br \/>\n<\/b>Eastnor, Malvern Hills, Herefordshire; Grid Reference: SO 7619 3937<\/p>\n<p><b>Access<br \/>\n<\/b>Open access<\/p>\n<p><b>Geologi<\/b><b>cal Age<br \/>\n<\/b>Precambrian \u2013 Warren House Volcanics<\/p>\n<p><b>Rock Types<br \/>\n<\/b>Igneous \u2013 Basalt<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-bodycopy clearfix\">\n<p><strong>Features<br \/>\n<\/strong>Pillow lava<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-4639\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clutters Cave, Malvern Hills<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Geological Overview South of British camp on the Malvern Hills just below the west side of the ridge is a man made cave, Clutter\u2019s Cave or Giant\u2019s Cave. This has been excavated into pillow lavas. Almost 600 million years ago a volcano erupted under the sea. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4640,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389\/revisions\/4640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}