"shallow cave" is a correct and usable term in written English.
You may use this term to describe a cave that is not very deep, such as a small cave near a beach or in a mountain. For example: "We hiked through the forest to the shallow cave at the edge of the lake."
A shallow cave was found during the excavation work for a new sewerage project.
A shallow cave at the trailhead has been fitted out as a storeroom for gear and supplies.
The tomb of Ahmed Shah Massoud, the assassinated Defense Minister of the Northern Alliance, is in a shallow cave burrowed into a hill in the Panjshir Valley.
One hike led to the shallow cave in which a German artist named Ulrike Arnold ground pigments from rocks to paint many of the massive canvases that hang in the resort.
Some are so mild we can traverse them with a simple step, but the lower portion of the river culminates in a six-foot drop, behind which is a shallow cave.
In 1868, in a shallow cave at Cro-Magnon near the town of Les Eyzies-de-Tayac Eyzies-de-Tayac Eyzies-de-Tayacwestern France, a number of obvinusly ancientheuman skeletons were founDordogne
Shallow caves at the base of the rock are sacred to several Aboriginal tribes and contain carvings and paintings.
Pleasant Hill's Shakers also had to hide their horses, livestock and other valuables in wooded valleys and shallow caves.
All around were deeply carved rocks, grottoes and shallow caves, the wild stuff of dreams or nightmares.
The dirt parking lot just behind the beach was backed by a steep cliff, cut by a series of shallow caves.
Writer remembered walking along the river as a child & playing in shallow caves there; the thrill of a new shelter; smoking; pitching.
