 The back wall is 7m from the face and there is a natural rock pillar in the middle of the cave.According to the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle", in 875 as the Danes ravaged Lindisfarne and 
"... destroyed all the monasteries.Eardulf, bishop of Lindisfarne, and abbot Eadred, taking the body of St Cuthbert from the island of Lindisfarne, wandered about for seven years."