The cave is named for water dripping through its roof. Miller connects it with a tradition that a passage ran through to Navity, three miles off. See the records for Willie Millar's exploration and for Fiddler's Well, which come from the same chapter.
Folklore & legend
The Blue Light at the Dropping Cave
Dropping Cave, Cromarty
Traditional; told by Miller in 1835
- Evidence
- Long-standing local tradition
- Access
- Access unrecorded
- Location
- 57.680, -4.025 (Parish-level only, treat as an area)
Sources: Hugh Miller, Scenes and Legends of the North of Scotland, Chapter XXIII, The Dropping Cave [public-domain]
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