Rutshellir Caves | Iceland Photo Spot

Rutshellir cave is one of the largest man-made caves in Iceland. An enormous pillar of rugged rock serves as the exterior of the cave with a stone barn or sheepcote serving as the gateway to the cave. This boulder is covered by the same mosses and grasses swarming the mountain. Rutshellir features two caves inside, the central tunnel and the smaller cave. Observers say the main cave was used as an outhouse for hay and stockfish. Evidence also indicates that people might have lived inside for a time. The main tunnel leads to a large area where you can see a carved bed on the rock. The bed has a light cross carving visible above it, and below is the hole in the smaller cave. This smaller cave is locally known as Stukan. There is no conclusive evidence determining what the smaller cave might have been used as before. But according to locals, it could have been a heathen temple or a blacksmith’s workshop. guidetoiceland.is (Evindarhólar, Iceland)