Located on the southern flank of Eldon Hill (etymologically "Elves' Hill"), the peaceful landscape has a hidden evil scar of just a hundred feet long and twenty feet wide. Long before 18th-century geologists dared to measure its depth, Eldon Hole was feared as a "bottomless pit." In 1636, the philosopher Thomas Hobbes famously wrote of a stone dropped into the abyss: "The lowest deep descending, i