THE CAVES OF SCOTLAND: A BIBLIOGRPHY

 

INTRODUCTION

 

On the assumption that nobody except myself, Martin Mills and Alan Jeffreys are interested in references, they were omitted from "The New Caves of Scotland" This more or less halved the number of pages in "The New Caves of Scotland" and of course, halved the price.  The references in the old "Caves of Scotland" plus any that I have acquired over the last quarter of a century are included here.  Unlike the "The New Caves of Scotland" I have included references for Assynt, Appin, Schichallion etc etc but cannot claim that they are complete.  Corrections and additions are of course welcome.  I have not (yet) copied over Alan Jeffreys's indexes to the GSG Bulletin, so these indexes need to be consulted in conjunction with this bibliography.  I have also included a few mining references, having nowhere else to store them.

 

I have also slipped in some cave descriptions.  These are of caves which have come to light since "The New Caves of Scotland " was published.

 

To save paper the book is also available on a CD.  Now this is very clever, if you have a computer you can search by author, publisher, title, subject etc.  But of course, if you own a computer, you already know that.

 

*East - the asterisk is to assist in computer searches.  If you did a search for East Wemyss, you would find every cave listed there.  But if you search for *East Wemyss or even *East, this will take you directly to the list of East Wemysscave references.

 

Again, to assist with computer searches, cave and place names have been recorded using both old and modern spellings.  

 

INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION 2006

 

It appears that is now a forth person who is interested in Scottish cave references - Colin McLeod.  Colin confirmed his interest by send me a box of offprints etc which have now been referenced.  This has trebled the bibliography and it is still growing daily.  Alan Jeffrey's indexes to the GSG Bulletin still have not been included and probably never will, so these indexes should be consulted inconjunction with this bibliography.  I have also collected a few mining references on the way and these are listed in an unpublished book "The Mines of Scotland, a Bibliography", again, available on a CD for a modest fee.

 

INTRODUCTION TO THE THIRD EDITION 2007

 

The "New Caves of Scotland" is now out of date and has been replaced with "The Remaining Caves of Scotland".  So named as this was what was left after I had published: "Caves of Kintyre", "Caves of South Western Scotland", and "Caves of Northern Britain".  The latter covers Caithness, Orkneys, Outer Hebrides, Shetland, and Sutherland.

 

 

ABBREVIATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

A                                             Altitude, or height above sea level

AA                                         Anon.  1965  AA Illustrated Road Book of Scotland... 288  36 maps, 175 plates, Automobile Association, London 4th edition.

aka                                          also known as

Anchorite Caves: PSAS 2 522 1854-57

Anderson 1863                     Anderson, George and Peter Anderson 1863 Fourth edition.  Guide to the Highlands and Western Islands of Scotland including Orkney and Zetland.  Adam & Charles Black, Edinburgh.

Anderson                              Anderson, I F 1933 To Introduce the Hebrides.  307 & iii, plates.  Herbert Jenkins Ltd, London

Andrew                                  Andrew, Hubert el al 1994 Scottish Island Hoping / A Guide for the Independent Traveller.  183, 8 maps.  Polygon, Edinburgh.

Anon 1898                             Anon 1808 The Beauties of Scotland.  Constable & Co, Edinburgh.  Vol 5 caves needs searching

Anon 1830                             Anon 1830 The Scottish Tourist Board & Itinerary 3rd edition, map, illus.  Stirling & Kenney, Edinburgh

Antiquity: this is available as a website.  Articles can be downloaded for £15.00 a time:  http://antiquity.ac.uk

Arch                                       Archaeological

Atkinson 1985                      Atkinson, Tom 1985 The Lonely Lands.  Luath Press Ltd, Barr, Ayrshire.

Atkinson                               Atkinson, Tom, 1989 South-West Scotland.  188, illus, location map.

Barnett                                   Barnett, T Radcliffe, 1944 Scottish Pilgrimage in the Land of the Lost Continent.  207 plates.  John Grant, Edinburgh and London.

Barnett, T Radcliffe, 1946    Barnett, T Radcliffe, 1946 Autumn in Skye, Ross and Sutherland.  John Grant Bookseller Ltd,             Edinburgh& London. 198 pp, illus.

Baxter                                     Baxter, Evelyn V and Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul 1953 The Birds of Scotland . Their History, Distribution and Migration.  Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh and London.

Bayley                                    Bayley, H, 1919 Archaic England.  894, figs.  Chapman & Hall, London

BB                                           Belfry Bulletin - the monthly journal of the Bristol Exploration Club

BC                                                           The British Caver [Nos 1-6 were published as the Mendip Exploration Society Journal].  Published 4 times a years @ £3.00 each post free from:   Tony Oldham, Duncavin, Rest Home for Retired Cavers, Riverside Mews, Cardigan, SA43 1DH, UK     

E-mail tonyfoldham@hotmail.com

BCRA                                     British Cave Research Association

Beaumont                              Beaumont, C, [1945?] The Riddle of Prehistoric Britain.  208, 21 illus, 5 maps.  Rider & Co, London

Bede 1861                              Bede, Cuthbert pseud [ie Rev Edward Bradley] 1861 Glenncreggan or, a Highland in Cantire.  2 vols, xxviii & 370 & xiv & 356, maps, illus.  Longman Green et al London

Bede 1863                              Bede, Cuthbert pseud [ie Rev Edward Bradley] 1863 A Holiday Ramble in the Land of Scott, or a tour of Tartanland.  48 steel engravings 430  Chas Griffen, London needs searching

Bede                                       Bede, Cuthbert pseud [ie Rev Edward Bradley] 1902 Argyll: Highlands or MacCailein Mor and the Lords of Lorne.  Ed & Pub John MacKay, Glasgow .  307 illus.  Chapter 11 on caves.

Berwick NHJ                         Berwick on Tweed Natural History Journal

Bigland                                  Bigland, John, 1810 A Geographical and Historical View of the World etc, etc.  London, Longman Hurst, Ress and Orm etc, 5 vols.

Birlinn 1998                           Pennant, Thomas 1772 A Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides 1772 with an Introduction by Charles W J Withers, Edited by Andrew Simmons.  [New Edition, Birlinn 1998]

Blacks                                    Blacks Picturesque Tourist of Scotland 17 ed.  1865 Edinburgh.

Blacks 1873                           Blacks Picturesque Tourist of Scotland 20 ed.  1873 Edinburgh.

Blake                                      Blake, Brian, 1955 The Solway Firth.  230 illus.  Robert Hale Ltd, London

Bonsall 1980                          Bonsall, Clive, 1980 The Coastal Factor in the Mesolithic Settlement of North-West England [in] Gramsch, B (ed) The Mesolithic in Europe, 451-472, Potsdam

Bonsall 1996                          Bonsall, Clive 1996  The `Obanian' Problem [in] Pollard, Tony & Morrison, Alex (eds)  The Early Prehistory of Scotland.  183-97, Edinburgh UniversityPress, Edinburgh.

Bowman                               Bowman, J E 1986 The Highlands and Island / A Nineteenth Century Tour 210 pp, illus.  HB DW  Alan Sutton, Gloucester.  In 1825 the author and a companion visited the Highlands, including Fingal's Cave.  The book includes 3 engravings by the author:  Entrance of Fingal's Cave; Bending Pillars, Staffa; View of Staffa from the south-west.

Buchanan                              Buchanan, George 1582 Rerum Scoticarum Historia.  A hypertext critical edition by Dana F Sutton, The University of Californian 2003.  http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/scothist/

Bull                                         Bulletin

Callander et al                       Callander, J G, Cree, J E, and Ritchie, J, 1927 Preliminary Report on Caves containing Palaeolithic Relics, near Inchnadamph, Sutherland.  PSAS 61 169-72

Campbell                                Campbell, John B., 1977 The Upper Palaeolithic of Britain: A Study of  Man and Nature in the late Ice Age 2 vols xiv + 244 & xiv + [376]pp  Clarendon Press Oxford

Campbell 1986                       Campbell, D A F, 1986 New Finds in Lorn.  Lorn Ach Hist Soc.  Autumn   19, 21

Campbell & Sandeman        Campbell, M. & Sandeman, M.L.S. (1961-2) Mid Argyll: a survey of the historic and prehistoric monuments. PSAS 95: 1-125.

Carmichael                             Carmichael, Alasdair 1974 Kintyre / Best of All the Isles.  David & Charles, Newton Abbot.  187, photos, maps etc.

CBA                                       CBA Research Report (20)  Gazetteer of Mesolithic sites in England and Wales edited by J J Wyner with a Gazetteer of Upper Palaeolithic sites in England and Wales edited by C J Bonsal 511 pp 1977 Geo Abstract and Council for British Archaeology

CC                                           Campbeltown Courier

CDG                                        Cave Diving Group

cf                                             compare with

Chapman                               Chapman, R W, (ed) 1924 [1965] Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson.  xix & 447 [26], illus.  Oxford UniversityPress, London

Cooper                                   Cooper, Derek 1970 Skye.  Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.  London.

Cooper 1989                          Cooper, Derek  1989 Skye.  Queen Anne Press, London.

Corbel                                    Corbel, J, 1957 Les Karst du Nord-Ouest de l'Europe ... 541, 100 plates, 162 figs.  [No 12 in the series] Revue de Géographie de Lyon

Cree                                        Cree, J e, 1909 Notice of the Excavation of Two Caves, with the Remains of Early Iron Age Occupation, on the Estate of Archerfall, Dirleton. PASA 93 243-68 [NT 51 85]

CRG                                        Cave Research Group

CSS                                         Chelsea Spelæological Society newsletter, London

Cullingford 1951                   Cullingford, C H D, 1951 Exploring Caves. 148, illus.  Oxford University Press.

Cullingford 1953                   Cullingford C H D (Ed) 1953 British Caving / An introduction to Speleology.  468 pp illus.  Pub Routledge Kegan & Paul, London.

Cullingford 1962                   Cullingford C H D (Ed) 1962 ed edition British Caving / An introduction to Speleology. 592 pp illus.  Pub Routledge Kegan & Paul, London.

Darling                                   Darling, F Fraser 1948 Island Years.  G Bell and Sons Ltd, London

Delaney                                 Delaney, Frank,  1993 A Walk to the Western Isles / After Boswell & Johnson. 308, illus.  Harper Collins, London

Dempster                               Dempster, Andrew 2003 Skye 360 Walking the coast of Skye.  Luath Press Ltd, Edinburgh.

Descent                                 Descent, The magazine of underground exploration, Cardiff.  Email: descent@wildplaces.co.uk

DGNHAS                               Transactions of the Dumfries and Galloway Natural History and Antiquary Society

Dick                                        Dick, Rev C H, 1916 Highways and Byways in Galloway & Carrick.  reprinted 1927  536, illus.  Macmillan & Co, London

Donaldson                            Donaldson, M E M [Miss] ND [1920] Wanderings in the Western Highlands and Island.  42 photos, map, line drawings, etc.  Alexander Gardner, Paisely.  £40.00 Book Barne 7.2.04

Donaldson, Mary Ethel Muir. 1921 Wanderings in the Western Highlands and Islands: recounting Highland and Clan history, traditions ecclesiology ... Illustrated etc.  Paisley  not seen

Donaldson, Mary Ethel Muir. 1923 2nd ed   Wanderings in the Western Highlands and Islands: recounting Highland and Clan history, traditions ecclesiology ... Illustrated etc.  Paisley not seen

Donaldson, Mary Ethel Muir. 1926 Further wanderings - mainly in Argyll. Recounting Highlandhistory, traditions ... Illustrated by photographs, etc.Paisley not seen

Donaldson, Mary Ethel Muir.  1927 3rd ed revised.  Wanderings in the Western Highlands and Islands: recounting Highland and Clan history, traditions ecclesiology ... 511, Illustrated etc. Paisley not seen

Donaldson, Islay M 1980 S R Crockett: The Man and the Writer.  DGNHAS 40 150-172. not seen

Donnachie & Macleod        Donnachie, Ian & Macleod, Innes 1974 Old Gallowway.  David & Charles 168 pp illus. HB DW.

Dorward                                 Dorward, David 2001 The Glens of Angus / Names, Places, People.  Pinkfoot Press, Angus.

Downie                                  Downie, R A 1948 All About Arran.  164, Blackie & Son Ltd, London.

ERT                                        ERT (Scotland) Ltd (2004).  Site condition monitoring: Berwickshire and North Northumberland Coast (BNNC) littoral and sublittora; caves, June 2003.  Scottish Natural Heritage Commissioned Report No 069 (ROAME No F02AA409)

Eyre-Todd                             Eyre-Todd, George, 1895 Scotland Picturesque and Traditional.  320, illus.  Cassell & Co. London

Eyre-Todd 1931                    Eyre-Todd, George, 1931 4th edition (revised)  Scotland Picturesque and Traditional.  320, illus.  Cassell & Co. London

Explorer                                  These are the new 1:25 000 Ordnance Survey maps for the area covered by this book.  Where possible these have been used to obtain an accurate National Grid Reference.

Ford 1955                               Ford, T D, 1959 The Sutherland Caves.  CRG Trans 5 (2) 141-187, illus.

Geikie                                     Geikie, Arichibald 1887 The Scenery of Scotland viewed in connection with its physical geology.  Macmillan, London & New York.

Geikie 1908                            Geike, Archibald KCB 1908 Scottish Reminiscences.  James Maclehose, Glasgow.

Glas SS                                   GlasgowSpeleological Society

Gordon 1929                          Gordon, Seton, 1929 The Charm of Skye: The Wingèd Isle.  242, illus, map.  Cassell & Co, London

Gordon                                   Gordon, Seton, 1935 Highways and Byways in the West Highland

Gordon 1948                          Gordon, Seton, 1948 Highways and Byways in the Central Highlands.

Gordon 1949                          Gordon, Seton, 1949 [1st ed 1935]  Highways and Byways in the West Highland

Gordon 1950                          Gordon, Seton, 1950  A Foot in the Hebrides.  322, illus, map.  Country Life

Grant                                      Grant, Will 1927 2nd ed revised  1951 The Call of the Pentlands / A Land of Glamour and Romance.  Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh & London.

Green 1980                             Green, H, Stephen, 1980 The Flint Arrowheads of the British Isles.  British Arch Reports, British Series (75) Oxford

Gregory                                  Gregory, J W et al 1930 Some caves and a rock shelter at Loch Ryan and Portpatrick, Galloway.  PSAS 64 247-264

GSS                                         GloucesterSpeleological Society

GSG                                        Grampian Speleological Group or Grampian Speleological Group Bulletin

Gunn, J 1943                          Gunn, J.  1943 [1^st ed 1932] Orkney / The Magnetic North.  The Nelson & Sons Ltd.  London,                                                                             Edinburgh etc.  286 pp illus.  64 caves - mentioned throughout the book

Gunn                                      Gunn, A G et al 1996 Gold mineralisation in the Dalradion of Knapdale-Kintyre, south-west highland.  British Geological Survey.  Mineral Reconnaissance Programme 143.  60, maps, figs, etc.

Hall 1912                                Hall, Rev Charles A 1912  The Isle of Arran.64 pp 12 colour plates.  Adam & Charles, London. 

Hall                                         Hall, Tom S, 1935  Walking Tours in Scotland.  176, maps, illus.  Moray Press, Edinburgh& London

Hannan                                  Hannan, Thomas 1926  The Beautiful Isle of Mull with Iona and the Isle of Saints.  211, 16 illus.  Robert Grant, Edinburgh

Haswell-Smith                       Haswell-Smith, Hamish, 1996 The Scottish Islands / A comprehensive guide to every Scottish Island.  xxiii+423 pp, 165+ maps of each island, showing caves, numerous line drawing by the author. Canongate Books Ltd, Edinburgh.  [A useful book with a lot of background information: Owner, Population [usually nil], Geology; History; Description and notes as to where I can anchor my "Gin Palace".]

Headley                                 Headley, Gwyn & Meulenkamp, Wim 1986 2nd edition 1999 Follies Grottoes & Garden Buildings.  Aurum Press, London.

Hibbert                                   Hibbert, Samuel second reprint 1931 A description of the Shetland Islands comprising an account of their scenery, antiquities, and superstitions.  T & J Manson, Lerwick.  Unfortunately the reprint omits much of the geological information and the pagination differs [Personal Communication Colin McLeod].  The 1st ed was 1822, Archibald Constable & Co Edinburgh and Hurst, Robinson & Co, London.  It was reprinted 1891 T & J Manson, Lerwick.

Humble                                  Humble, B H, 1947 Tramping in Skye.  145, illus.  William MacLellan, Glasgow 2nd enlarged edition

Hunt                                       Hunt, Robert 1887, reprinted 1978 A Historical Sketch of Brutish Mining. EP Publishing Company, Wakefield.

Hutchinson                           Hutchinson, Walter Victor 1924-26 Britain Beautiful / A popular and illustrated account of the magnificent historical, architectural, and picturesque wonders of the counties of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. [also includes Isle of Man and Channel Isles].  It was originally issued as a 52-part partwork for binding in four volumes.  The whole thing came to 2216 pages, illustrated with almost 200 photographs, 52 full-colour plates and 120 maps.  Almost all of the Scottish photographs, and many from elsewhere in Britain, were by Valentines of Dundee.  The Valentine Photographic archive is now held by the University of St Andrews:  http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/03021901.html  [Personal Communication Colin McLeod]

illus                                         illustration

Jackson                                  Jackson, J Wilfrid, 1938 Excavations at Ballintoy Caves, Co Antrim.  Fourth Report.   The Irish Naturalists' Journal 7 December.

Jl                                             Journal

Jeffreys                                  Jeffreys, A L 1966 Scotland as an area for speleological research.  Proc BSA 4th Annual Conference,. 31-37 

Jones                                      Jones, W F, [Jug]  ND Some Caves and Mines in Scotland.  15, pub privately

JSH                                         Journal of Spelean History

Keddie                                   Keddie, William, ND [c1850] Staffa & Iona Described and Illustrated.  160, map, illus.  Blackie and Son, Glasgow

Kempe 1988                           Kempe, David 1988 Living Underground / A History of Cave and Cliff Dwelling.  256, illus.  The Herbert Press, London. 

Kempe                                    Kempe, David 1992 Exploring Doo Caves.  Scots Mag 137 (4) 407-412 5 photos.  July, 1992

Knox 1798                              Knox, John, 1798 A tour through the Highlands of Scotland & the Hebrides in MDCCLXXVI [1776] pp 1-clxxii + First part 1- 276 + second part 1-104.

L                                              Length

Lacaille                                   Lacaille, A D, 1954 The Stone Age of Scotland.  345, figs, plates, maps, biblio.  Oxford Univ. Press, London

Lang                                       Lang, Andrew & Lang, John, 1913 Highways and Byways in the Border.  MacMillan & Co Ltd, London.

Lang 1951                              Lang, Theo  1951 The Kingdom of Fife and Kinross-shire [in the series] The King's Scotland.  Hodder and Stoughton, London.

Laughlan                               Laughlan, William F, editor 1982 Northern Lights or a voyage in the Lighthouse Yacht to Nova Zembla and the Lord knows where in the summer of 1814 / Sir Walter Scott.  Byway Books, Hawick.

Laughlan 1982                      Laughlan, William F, 1982 A Companian and Useful Guide to The Beauties of Scotland by Sarah Murray.  Byway Books, Hawick. [a modern reprint based on the 2nd edition, omitting the section on Northern England].

Lawson                                  Lawson, Tim 2003 Some Caves of Kintyre.  GSG  Ser 4 1 5  Oct 21-28 S

Lethbridge                             Lethbridge, T C, 1950 Herdsman and Hermits.  Bowes & Bowes, Cambridge.

Leitch & Tolan-Smith          Leitch, Roger & Tolan-Smith, Christopher. 1997  Archaeology and the Ethnology of Cave Dwelling in Scotland [in] Bonsal, C, & Tolan-Smith, C, (eds) 1997  The Human Use of Caves.  British Archaeological Reports International Series (667) Oxford  122-6

Linklater 1965                        Linklater, Eric, 1965 The Prince in the Heather 150, HB, Hodder & Stoughton, London

Linklater                                 Linklater, Eric, 1976 The Prince in the Heather 150, Panther, London

Lloyd-Jones                          Lloyd-Jones, Robin 1989 Argonauts of the Western Isles / Sea Kayaking off Scotland's West Coast.  192 pp 11 colour photos.  HB DW £10.95 Diadem Books, London.

Lockhart                                Lockhart, J G, 1893 The Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, 1771-1832.  806, New Popular, Edition, Adam & Charles Black.

Lovelock                                Lovelock, J, 1969 Caving.  144, illus.  Batsford, London

Lübke                                     Lübke, Anton, 1958 The World of Caves, translated from Geheimnisse des Unterirdischen.  295, illus. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London

MacBride                               MacBride, M, 1910 Arran of the Bens, the Glens, and the Brave.  viii & 231 [4], 16 col plates.  T N Foulis, London and Edinburgh.

MacCulloch 1927a               MacCulloch, J A, 1927 The Misty Isle of Skye, Its Scenery, Its People, Its Story.  Eneas MacKay, Stirling

MacCulloch 1927b               MacCulloch, D B, 1927 The Island of Staffa.  64, illus.  Alex MacLaren & Sons, Glasgow

MacCulloch 1934a               MacCulloch, D B, 1934  The Wondrous Isle of Staffa.  195, illus.  Alex MacLaren & Sons, Glasgow

Macdiarmid                           Macdiarmid, Hugh, [pseud Christopher  Murray Grieve]  1939 The islands of Scotland, Hebrides, Orkneys and the Shetlands.  140, illus, map.  Batsford, London  [see Andrew 114, for Macdiarmid's Museum]

MacDonald                           MacDonald, H, [nd] Guide to Staffa, Iona & Mull.  58, illus.  16th ed Hugh MacDonald, Bookseller, Oban

    ditto                                    another ed - 40th year of publication

MacGregor 1937                   MacGregor, Alasdair Alpin 1925, reprinted 1937 Behold the Hebrides! or Wayfaring in the Western Isles.  Foreword by Lord Alness.  W & R Chambers, Ltd, London and Edinburgh.

MacGregor                            MacGregor, A A 1950 Somewhere in Scotland.  234, 54 plates, reprinted ed.  Robert Hale, London

MacGregor 1972                   MacGregor, Murray1972 2nd ed Excursion Guide to the Geology of Arran. Geological Society of Glasgow, The University, Glasgow.

MacKenzie, Compton 1961 [and other editions].  Whisky Galore.  A novel, based on a true story.  In 1941 the SS Politician ran aground on Eriskay, loosing 20,000 cases of whisky.  Some of it ended up on Barra, was stored in a cave there.  Compton MacKenzie, lived on Barra and is buried in the church yard.

Mackie                                   Mackie, Euan W 1975 Scotland: An archaeological guide from the earliest time to the 12 century AD.  309, illus.  HB DW  Faber & Faber, London.

MacLean                               MacLean, J P, 1890  An Historical, Archaeological and Geological examination of Fingal's Cave in the Island of Staffa.  49, illus.  Subscribers' edition.  Robert Clarke & Co, Cincinnati

Macleod                                Macleod, Innes, 1986 Discovering Galloway.  280 pp, illus.  Edinburgh, John Donald Publishers Ltd.  SB £7.50 [1990 ed]

MacNab                                 MacNab, P A, 1970 The Isle of Mull.  246, 31 plates, 11 figs.  David & Charles, Newton Abbot

Macnab 1997                        Macnab, Peter 1997 Highways and Byways in Mull and Iona.  Luath Press Ltd, Edinburgh. [1st ed 1986 revised 10 times]

Macpherson                         Macpherson, D, 1937 Vest Pocket Guide to Kyle of Lochalsh and the Isle of Skye.  120, map.

Maine                                     Maine, G F, (ed) 1965 A Book of Scotland.  384, illus

Mais                                       Mais, S P B, 1947 I Return to Scotland.  274 , 15 plates, 11 maps, Christopher Johnson, London

M'Arthur                               M'Arthur, J, 1873 The Antiquities of Arran.  184, 11 plates, 2nd ed.  Adam & Charles Black, Edinburgh

Martin                                    Martin, Martin 1716  A Description of the Western Islands....  392, maps, 2nd ed.  A Bell et al London.  [reprinted recently for $19.95 + post].  Also a second edition by James Thin, The Mercat Press, Edinburgh, with original pagination.

Martin c1695                         Martin, Martin c 1695  A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland.  Including a voyage to St Kilda by the same author and A Description of the Western Isles of Scotland by Sir Donald Munro.  With an introduction [pub] Donald J Macleoad  1994 Birlinn Ltd, Edinburgh.  540, SB

Martin 1984                           Martin, Angus 1984 Kintyre: The Hidden Past.  232, John Donald, Edinburgh.

May & Hanson                    May, V J & J D Hanson 2003 Coastal Geomorphology of Great Britain.  Joint Nature Conservation Committee.  Geological Conservation Review Series. 446, illus, maps, photos.

MCG                                       Mendip Caving Group

McLaren                                McLaren, Moray, 1972 Bonnie Prince Charlie.  224, illus, biblio.  Robert Hale, London

McLellen                               McLellan, Robert 1970 The Isle of Arran.  269, 31 plates, 17 figs.  Praeger Publishers, New York

McNeill                                  McNeill, F Marian 4th ed 1954 Blackie & Son Ltd, London and Glasgow.

Mercer                                   Mercer, John 1978 The Investigation of the King's Cave, Isle of Jura, Argyll.  Glas Arch Jl 5 44-70.

Mem NC&MRS                    Memoirs; Northern Cavern and Mines Research Society

Merrill                                    Merrill, John N 1989 Turn Right at Land's End / The story of the first walk around the entire coastline of Britain - 6,824   AJNM Publication, Matlock, Derbyshire.

Miller 1835                             Miller, Hugh 1835 Scenes and Legends of the North of Scotland or The Traditional History of Cromarty.  caves passim.

Miller 1897                             Miller, Hugh 1897 The Cruise of the Betsy / or a summer holiday in the Hebrides / with a geologist or ten thousand miles over fossiliferous deposits of Scotland.  W P Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, Edinburgh.

Mitchell                                 Mitchell, W R,  1990  It's a long way to Muckle Flugga.  189, 17 colour plates, 17 B7W plates.  Souvenir Press, London

Motoring                               Motoring in Scotland tenth edition 1957  reprinted from the Glasgow Herald and revised and amplified.  George Outran & Co Ltd, Glasgow.

MSG                                       Moldywarps Speleological Group

Muirhead                               Muirhead, F, (ed) 1927 The Blue Guide, Scotland.  liv & 452 & 32, maps

Muirhead 1947                      Muirhead, F, (ed) 1947 The Blue Guide, Scotland.

Mull & Iona                          MacLean, A, [1974?] The Isle of Mull & Iona.  68, illus, map. Adoon Ltd, Edinburgh

Murray 1805                          Murray, Sarah, 1805  A companion and Useful Guide to the Beauties of Scotland, and the Hebrides, to the Lakes of Westmorland, Cumberland, and Lancashire; and to the Curiosities of Craven, in the West Riding of Yorkshire.  Also a Description of Part of Scotland, Particularly of the Highlands, and of the Isles of Mull, Ulva, Staffa I-Columbkill, Tirii, Coll, Eigg, Rum, Skye, Raza and Scalpa.  To which is Now Added, An Account of the New Roads in Scotland, and of a Beautiful Cavern Lately Discovered in the Isle of Skye.  London: published by the author,

Murray 1810                          Murray, Sarah, 1810  A companion and Useful Guide to the Beauties of Scotland, and the Hebrides, to the Lakes of Westmorland, Cumberland, and Lancashire; and to the Curiosities of Craven, in the West Riding of Yorkshire.  Also a Description of Part of Scotland, Particularly of the Highlands, and of the Isles of Mull, Ulva, Staffa I-Columbkill, Tirii, Coll, Eigg, Rum, Skye, Raza and Scalpa.  To which is Now Added, An Account of the New Roads in Scotland, and of a Beautiful Cavern Lately Discovered in the Isle of Skye.  London: published by the author, 3rd ed, 2 vols.  [not seen]  See Laughlan 1982

Murray                                   Murray, W H, 1966 The Hebrides.  Heineman Ltd, London

Murray 1968                          Murray, W H, 1968 The Companion Guide to the West Highlands of Scotland / The Seaboard to Cape Wrath.  Collins, London.

Nat Geo                                  National Geographic Magazine

Newton                                  Newton, Norman S 1998 Kintyre  112, many colour photos.  Pevensey Press (an imprint of David & Charles), Newton Abbot.

NCMRS Mem                       Northern Cavern and Mine Research Society Memoirs

NGR                                        National Grid Reference - see  Ordnance Survey 1 inch maps for details of how it works.

Nicholas                                Nicholas, Donald, 1949 The Young Adventurer; The Wanderings of Prince Charles Edward Stuart in Scotland and England 1745-46.  228, illus, biblio.  Batchworth Press, London

N/L                                         Newsletter

NS                                           New Series

O'Brian                                  O'Brien, Robert and Rae, Ian ND [c1990] An Excursion Guide to the Geology of Grampian Region.  Grampian Regional Council Education Department.  [Extracts from loose leaf teachers' resources folder, must predate the current risk aversion culture vide Colin McLeod],  8 blowhole, 9 blowhole, 10 Cave of the Red Rocks, NGR NJ 965 028, 21 raised beach caves, 28 arch, cave, 29 Gypsies' Cave, Clashach Cove cNGR NJ 163 702, 31 arches, 33 The Needle's Eye, 35 caves, 37 caves, 38 caves, arch, blowhole, "Return to the landward end of the platform and enter a narrow fissure, The Needle's Eye, which leads through the headland to a large cave on the other side - The Devil's Dining Room, the Hell's Lum, an enormous blowhole which leads to rear of a cave named the Devil's Kitchen, 40 arch, caves, Windy Cave, 48 Clashach Cove - arches caves, 49 Aberdour arch, caves, Bullers of Buchan.

opp                                         opposite

Palmer 1947                           Palmer, William T, 1947 The Verge of the Scottish Highlands.  Robert Hale Ltd, London

Parker                                     Parker, Olive, 1971  Caves in Scottish History.  Scottish Magazine.  67 44-47, illus, Feb

PAS                                        Peakland Archaeological Society

Peach                                     Peach et al 1911 The Geology of Knapdale, Jura and North Kintyre.  Mem Geol Sur.  Scot 28 etc.

Pennant 1774                        Pennant, Thomas  1774  A Tour in Scotland [in] MDCCLXIX [1769] tros tyriusque mihi nullo discrimine agetur.  Third edition.  W Eyres, Warrington.  2 vols 400 many illus, many hand coloured.  reprinted 1979 Melven Press, Perth.

Pennant                                 Pennant, Thomas  1772  A Tour in Scotland  379

Peterkin                                  Peterkin, G A G, 1980 Scottish Dovecotes.  William Culross & Sons, Ltd, Coupar Angus, Perthshire.

Pollard                                    Pollard, Tony and Alex Morrison, edited by 1996  The Early Prehistory of Scotland  300, illus, figs etc.  Edinburgh University Press.

Price                                       Price, G 1997 Cave Conservation Handbook.  Caves Scheduled as Ancient Monuments (SAMs) 14-3

PSAS                                      Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, Scotland.  The entire contents of lists, and digital copies of Archaeolgia Scotia, 1 1792 to 5 1890, the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 1 1851-54 to 129 1999 [later issues are subscription only] and out of print monographs are available on the website of Archaeology Data Service free of charge: http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/library/psas/

Pub                                         Published; publications

Pyatt                                       Pyatt, Edward C, 1966 Mountains of Britain.  216, illus.  B T Batsford, London

QJGS                                      Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society

qv                                           also mentioned

RCAHMS                              Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland  Another useful database which can be accessed via the internet: http://www.rcahms.gov.uk./index.htm

Redfern                                  Redfern, Roger A, 1966 Rambles in the Hebrides.  195, illus, map. Robert Hale, London

RHAS 1969                            Staniforth, R H A, 1969 Speleoskye.  Speleologist 3 (17) 16-17, map

RHAS 1971                            Staniforth, R H A, 1971 Spelo on Skye.  The British Caver 56 45

Ritchie                                    Ritchie, Anna & Graham 1998  Scotland / An Oxford Archaeological Guide.  Oxford UniversityPress, Oxford and New York.

Rixson                                    Rixson, Denis 2001 The Small Isles, Canna, Rum, Eigg and Muck.  213 pp 10 plates. SB Birlinn, Edinburgh.

Roberts                                  Roberts, John L 1998 The Highland Geology Trail.  Luath Press Ltd, Edinburgh

Robertson                             Robertson, James K 1973 About St Andrews - and About.  Citizen Office, St Andrews, Fife.

Rogers                                   Rogers, Pat 1993 Johnson and Boswell in Scotland / A Journey to the Hebrides.  Yales University Press, New Haven & London.

RRCPC                                   Red Rose Cave & Pothole Club

Ryder                                     Ryder, P F, 1974 The Caves of Beinn an Dubhaich area, Isle of Skye.  Trans BCRA 1 (2) 101-125, illus, map, S

Ryder 1995                            Ryder, Peter F and contributions from Alan L Jeffreys, 1995 Caves of Skye [pub as] The Limestone Caves of Scotland Part 5.  Occ Pub (7) GSG, Edinburgh.  73, illus, surveys.  Does not cover all the limestone caves and omits the sea caves which tend to be in igneous rocks.

S                                              Survey

St John, C 1849 A Tour of Sutherland  needs searching

Salvona & Young                Salvona, J & Young, I,  1988  Scottish Cave Guides / The Southern Highlands.  34, S

Saville & Hallén                    Saville, Alan & Hallén, Ywonne [Yvonne?] 1994  The Obanian Iron Age: human remains from Oban cave sites, Argyll, Scotland.  Antiquity 68 715-723

SC                                           Sutherland Caves, Sheffield UniversityMountaineering Club, Research Folder No 1.  20, illus.  Sheffield[1948?]

Scott-Moncrieff                    Scott-Moncrieff, George 1949 The Face of Britain, The Lowlands of Scotland, Batsford, London.  A good historical account

Shaw                                      Shaw, T[revor], R[oyal], [1967] Cave Illustrations Before 1900 / A Catalogue of Non-photographic Illustrations of Caves

Sillar                                       Sillar, Frederick C, & Mayler, Ruth M, 1973 Skye.  240, 27 plates, 5 figs.  David & Charles, Newton Abbot

Silver                                      Silver, Owen 1995 St Andrews to Largo.  A Longshore Trail of rocks and plants.  Published privately, St Andrews 1995. No page numbers.

Simpson                                 Simpson, W Douglas, 1967 Portrait of Skye and the Outer Hebrides.  188, illus.  Robert Hale, London

Simpson 1968                        Simpson, W Douglas,  1968 The Ancient Stones of Scotland. Robert Hale, London.

Sloan                                      Sloan, J M, 1908 Galloway.  311, 24 col plates, 18 B&W plates.  Adam & Charles Black, London

Smith                                      Smith, D I 1968 A study of calcium and magnesium content of waters in limestone areas.  Proc 4th ICS, Ljublijana 3 213-218 [Scotland]

Smith & Bonsall                   Smith, Christopher  & Bonsall, Clive  1991  Late Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic chronology: points of interest from recent research [in] Barton, N et al (eds) The Late Glacial in North-West Europe, 208-12.  Council British Arch Research Report (77) London

SNAB                                     Peter McNab Note books - in GSG records

Soc                                         Society

Southey                                 Southey, Robert 1929 Journal of a Tour in Scotland 1819 with introduction and notes by C H Herford.  276 pp HB DW.  John Murray, London.  In 1819, Robert Southey, the Poet Laureate, in company with Thomas Telford, the great engineer, made a comprehensive tour through Scotland, and being a true book man, kept a record of the people met and the things seen on the journey.  p 59 "And here in Arbroath I saw more prostitutes walking the street than would I think have been seen in any English town ..."

Spel                                        The Speleologist (1) - (15) published by the DRC Publishing Co, Exeter.  (16) - (20) published by Fashion Buyer Ltd, London

Statistical Account, or Stat Acc        New Statistical Account and Old Statistical Account,   these is now on the net http://www.edina.ed.ac.uk/statacc

Steers                                     Steers, J A, 1973  The Coast Line of Scotland.  University Press, Cambridge.

Steers 1969                            Steers, J A, 1969 4th ed The Sea Coast.  Collins, New Naturalist Series, No 25.  London. [1st ed was 1953]

Sutherland                             Sutherland, H, 1939 Hebridean Journey.  277.  Geoffrey Blas, London

SWETCCC                            South Wessex Essex Technical College Caving Club

Swire                                      Swire, O F, 1961 Skye: The Island and its Legends. 2nd ed, 244, illus, map.  Black & Son Ltd.  London & Glasgow.

Swire 1966                             Swire, O F, 1966 The Outer Hebrides and Their Legends

Temperley                             Temperley, Alan, 1979 Tales of Galloway.  309, illus.  Skilton & Shaw, London.  Caves, not located 217, 219

Thomson                               Thomson, A A, 1951 Highland Welcome.  318, illus.  Herbert Jenkins, London

Thornber                               Thornber, Iain 1993 A Caveman for Four Days [Jura] Scots Mag 138 (5) 452-463, 3 cave photos, location map.

Tindall                                    Tindall, Jemima, 1981 Scottish Island Hopping / A Handbook for the Independent Traveller.  Sphere Books Ltd, London

Tolan-Smith 1995                 Tolan-Smith, Chris 1996 Turning a cave into home sweet home.  Brit Archael (CBA) 44 10-11 pls

Tolan-Smith                          Tolan-Smith, Christopher 2001  The Caves of Mid Argyll / an archaeology of human use.  Society of Antiquaries of Scotland / Monograph Series (20)  184, 87 illus, 31 tables. Edinburgh

Tranter                                   Tranter, Nigel 1971 The Queen's Scotland: The Heartland, Clackmannanshire, Perthshire and Stirlingshire.  293, 50 plates, map.  Hodder and Stoughton, London

trans                                       translated

Tran                                        Transactions

Tudor                                     Tudor, J R, 1883  The Orkneys and Shetlands.

Valentine                               Valentine, EastonS 1912 Forfarshire.  Cambridge County Geographies.  University Press, Cambridge

VR                                           Vertical Range - the vertical difference between the highest and lowest point in a cave, where the highest point is not necessarily the entrance.

vc                                            very close? [next to a NGR]

vc                                            vice county

vide                                        see or look at

WCC                                      Wessex Cave Club

White                                     White, Capt T P 1873 Archaeological Sketches in Scotland, District of Kintyre.  Blackwood.  Edinburgh & London  104 plates 12, 13

Wickham-Jones                    C R Wickham-Jones, C R  Scotland's First Settlers 1994, reprinted 2000  128 pp, 98 illus, 10 colour plates.  B T Batsford, London

Wilson                                   Wilson, John H 1910 Nature study rambles round St Andrews.  W C Henderson & Sons, University Press, St Andrews.

Whittow                                Whittow, J B 1977 reprinted 1979 Geology and Scenery in Scotland.  Penguin Books.

Williamson                            Williamson, Kenneth and Boyd, J Morton, 1963 A Mosaic of Islands.  Oliver and Boyd.  Edinburgh& London

WL Oban 1936/7                  Guide to Oban, Skye, Fort William, and the Western Highland. 1936/7 9th edition.  xiv + 144 + 50  Ward Lock & Co Ltd, London.

WL Oban                               Guide to Oban ... ii & 7 & 160 & vii, maps, illus.  12 ed.  Ward Lock & Co Ltd, London.

Wordsworth                         Wordsworth, Dorothy 1997 Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland [in 1803] Introduction, Notes and Photographs by Carol Kyros Walker.  ix + 233, 210 plates.  HB DW  Yale University Press, New Haven and London.

Yeoman                                  Yeoman, Peter    1999  Pilgrimage in Medieval Scotland 128 pp, 92 B&W illus, 12 colour illus.  B T Batsford, London

Young                                    Young, Ivan 1978 Appin Cave Guide.  Grampian Speleological Group Special Publication No 1 October.  30, maps, survey

YRC                                        YorkshireRamblers' Club Journal

Yuill                                        Yuill, Jackie 1991 Fife and Kinross - An Underground Gazetteer.  GSG Ser 3 1 (5) 20-32

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                 Volume numbers are underlined thus: 1

                                                                                                                                                                Numbered issues are given brackets: (2)

                                                                                                                                             Un-numbered pages are given square brackets: [6]

                                                                                                                                                                         Number pages are given thus: 234,

 

INDIVIDUAL CAVE REFERENCES

 

3D CAVE                        NGR NG 724 5 4445           1" OS 25                   Applecross, Ross and Cromarty

GSG Ser 3 4 (3) 15-16 S

 

ABERLADY CAVE                              NGR                                          Landranger,          East Lothian

L 50 yards.  The discovery of an old cave survey sent the author and her husband off to find this cave.  It is described as a passage "4 feet high and 3 feet wide and built of stone with two cellars cunningly built into the sides…".  This suggest a souterrain.  The entrance was filled in before 1912 but a local group is keen to open it up.  Marked `cave' on 1892 & 1894 OS maps.

Derrick, Anne 2006 Aberlady Cave.  East Lothian Life (57) Autumn 30-31, illus.

Reid, J P 1912 The Skippers' [sic] Daughters.  [ a classic adventure story of smuggling days in Aberlady] not seen

 

ACARSAID BHEAG ROCK SHELTER AND FISSURE CAVE    NGR NR 7444 9079  1" OS 52                                                                                                                                                                     Knapdale

Tolan-Smith  22

 

ACH A'CHORRAIN CAVES           NGR NC 374 627    1" OS 9                                Durness, Sutherland

Brandon, R, 1981 Uamh an Eugmhais Croich, Ach a'Chorrain.  GSG Ser 2 3 (3) 12-13

Christopher, N S J, & W H, Little, 1968 Some Further Observations in Scotland.  CRG N/L (110) 14-15

Cullingford 1962  180

Ford, T D, 1959 Sutherland Caves, CRG Trans 5 (2) 141-190

Heys, B, 1959 Scottish Caves.  Northern Pennine Club Jl 2 (2) 57

Jarratt, T 1976 Wet Weather Dye Tracing at Ach a'Chorrain Cave, Durness.  GSG Ser 2 1 (4) 11

Jarratt, T, 1979 An Extension to Ach a'Chorrain Cave No 1. GSG Ser 2 2 (4) 10

Jarratt, T 1991  Knockan Field Hut Logbook 1977-1991 [1992] 136-137

Jarratt, T, 1991 Holiday Digging in Assynt.  GSG Ser 3 2 (1) 12-15

Jeffreys, A, & I, Young, 1998  A Grampian Hit on Durness. GSG Ser 3 4 (5) 49-54

Jeffreys, A, L, 2003 Ach a'Chorrain re-evaluated.  GSG  Ser 4 1 5  Oct 38-44

Mills, Martin T 1972 GSG Ser 1 5 (2) 22-23

 

ACHADH COSAN BOULDER CAVE      NGR NR 712 0 8502           1" OS 52                          Knapdale

Tolan-Smith  22

 

ACHRANCAVEsee HERMIT'S CAVE [1]

 

ACHINHOAN HEAD, CAVES OF NGR NR 760 765 etc                   1" OS 65                        Argyllshire

see Caves of Kintyre

AA  126

Anon 1934 [In] News and Views; Chronology of Scottish Caves.  Nature 134 316 [Hamilton Maxwell, Glasgow Archaeological Society in a cave at Kintyre as compared with the Oban Cave]

Bede  1861 1  191-192

Bord, J & C 1985 Sacred Waters / Holy Wells & Water Lore in Britainand Ireland. 51

British Arch Assoc Jl NS 29 1923 248ff

Brown, E, 1866 The Raised Beaches of Cantyre.  Geol Mag Ser 1 3 139-141

Campbeltown Courier 6 Jan 1894;  10 April 1926; 14th April, 28th April, 1st Sept, 8th Sept 1934

Carmichael  130, 135

Cullingford 1962 300-301

Glasgow Herald, The, 22nd December 1933; 28th Sept 1935

Glas SS Jl 1 (4)

GSG 4 (1) 28, 31 S; 4 (2) 14

Hull, E, 1866 The Raised Beaches of Cantyre.  Geol Mag Ser 1 3 5-10, illus

Jones 9

Kintyre Collection, MS 133 Campbeltown Museum

Lawson, Tim 2003 Some Caves of Kintyre.  GSG  Ser 4 1 5  Oct 21-28 S

Leitch & Tolan-Smith  122

Lübke  36

Martin 1984   122

Maxwell, J H 1934  Preliminary report of excavation at Keil Caves 1933-34.  Kintyre Antiqu Soc & Glasgow Arch Soc.  pamphlet 4 pp illus.  [reprinted from The Campbeltown Courier]

Newton  54-55

Pennant  195

RCAHMS 1971 Argyll 1  Kintyre 145-7, figs, 146-148 S, plates 48A-C

Ritchie, J N G, 1966 Keil Cave, Southend, Argyll; A Late Iron Age Cave Occupation in Kintyre.  PSAS 99  104-110 illus

Shell Guide to Britain  124 reprinted BC 54 9

Statistical Account 1845 7 454

Sunday Times 29th Sept; 20th Sept 1935 reprinted BC 14 79-80

Tolan-Smith  5

White, Capt T P 1873 Archaeological Sketches in Scotland, District of Kintyre.  Blackwood.  Edinburgh & London  104 plates 12, 13

 

A'CHRANNAG ROCK SHELTER             NGR NR 7290 7597     1" OS 58                               Knapdale

Tolan-Smith  18

 

A'CROIS CAVES                              NGR                         Landranger Glen Loin

Humble, B H 1949 Davie Knows a Howff.  Scots Mag 51 (4) July 276-280, 2 photos.  277 A'Crois Caves of Glen Loin.

 

ADAM'S CAVE                                NGRNS162 800    Explorer 63                     Sandbank near Dunoon

Salvona, Jim 2005 GSG Ser 4 2 (4) 14

 

AGASSIZROCK, THE                     NGR NT 259 702    Landranger 66            Blackford Hill, Edinburgh

Anon 1951 Scientific survey of south-eastern Scotland. British Association, Edinburgh.  199  Refers to this as a cave, but it is just a rock overhang.  Named after the Swiss geologist Agassiz.

 

AILEAN MHAOIL, UAMH    NGR NR 70 8 660             1" OS 58                            Knapdale, Argyllshire

aka The Caves of the Bald Alan or of Alan the Monk.

Campbell & Sandeman 8, No 29

 

AILSA CRAIG                                  NGR NS 02 00        Explorer 317                                           Ayrshire

see GOAT CAVE, MACANALL'S CAVE, SWINE CAVE, SWINE HOLES, WATER CAVE, there is also a Dalton's Cove at NGR NX 0232 9925.

Anderson 1863 107-108

Anderson  59

Baxter 526

Haswell-Smith 3, map shows 5 caves

Lloyd-Jones  85 Water Cave by Stranny Point which leads into the heart of the island.  Goat Cave that used to shelter the goats that supplied milk to the lighthouse keepers, both on Ailsa Crag.

Steers 103

 

AIRLIE SOUTERRAIN                   NGR NO 305 515    1" OS 49                                          Airlie, Forfar

aka Airlie Caves.  Take the A926 road and 1¼ miles east of the bridge at Ruthven and turn left.  After 1 mile turn left again at the cross-roads at Kirkton of Airlie.  The souterrain is on a ridge at the west end of the second field west of the farmhouse.  The main passage is 65 feet long, but the entrance has not been excavated.

 

Stat Acc "Two caverns, formed within dry knolls, which probably served as retreats to the ancient inhabitants in time of danger, have been discovered in the parish; about one half-way between the castle and Kirktown, and the other about a mile south.  They are separated by a deep hollow, but within view of each other.  They seem to have been for to six feet in width and from twenty to thirty in length, and about 6 feet in height, and were constructed with dry stone walls on the sides, and roofed over with very large stones, with a covering earth.  The entrances have been covered with thickets of broom.  The stone covers, which are of red sandstone, have been obtained near the spot, but evidently quarried with considerable care and labour".

Marshall, William 1875  Historic Scenes in Forfarshire.  William Oliphant & Co, Edinburgh. 153 description.  297-300 general discussion on souterrains or Pict;s Houses.

Fraser, Duncan 1977 The Flower People.  Standard Press, Montrose.  91-93 with 4 plates - 74-77.

Mackie 188

Statistical Account 1845 11 679

 

ALBANNAICH, UAMH AN            NGR NG 248 490    Landranger 23                           Dunvegan, Skye

Parker  47

 

ALISTER BANES'S CAVE              NGR                         Landranger Glenalmond

Forrester, David Marshall 1944 Logiealmond.  Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd Ltd.  223-224 Alsister Banes's Cave, Glenalmond.

 

AN CORRAN ROCK SHELTER    NGR NG 49 1 685    Landranger 23                                 Staffin, Skye

Bronk Ramsey, C., Pettitt, P.B., Hedges, R.E.M., Hodgins, G.W.L. & Owen, D.C. (2000) Radiocarbon dates from the Oxford AMS system: Archaeometry datelist 30. Archaeometry 42: 459-479.

Pollard  186, 188

Rees, T,  Kozikowski, G and Miket, R  1994  Investigation of a shell midden at An Corran, Staffin, Isle of Skye.  Unpublished report.

Saville, A. (1998) An Corran, Staffin, Skye. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 1998: 126-127.

Saville, A. & Miket, R. (1994a) An Corran rock shelter, Skye: a major new Mesolithic site. Past 8: 9-10.

Saville, A. & Miket, R. (1994b) An Corran, Staffin, Skye (Kilmuir parish): rock shelter. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 1994: 40-41.

Steers 128

Wildgoose, M. (1988) An Choran (Kilmuir parish), shell midden, flints. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 1988: 17.

 

ANCRUM CAVES                            NGR NT 630 250    1" OS 70                    Ancrum Bridge, Roxburgh

Lang 10

Shell Guide to Scotland  74, reprinted BC 54 9

Statistical Account 1791-99  10 295  On the banks of the Ale, below the House of Ancrum, there are several caves or recesses, and not less than fifteen.  In some of them are vestiges of chimneys and fireplaces.

The Border Magazine 6 119  not seen

 

 

AN GARRADH BOULDER CAVE [1]      NGR NR 756 9 7689                       1" OS 58              Knapdale

 

AN GARRADH BOULDER CAVE [2]      NGR NR 761 0 9077                       1" OS 58              Knapdale

Tolan-Smith  22

 

AN GARRADH ROCKSHELTER      NGR NR 754 0 7665     1" OS 58                                      Knapdale

Tolan-Smith

 

ANSTRUTHER, CAVE OF              NGR NO 575 035    1"OS 56                                                  Fifeshire

aka Dunino Den, next to Bell Craig.

Anon ND Strange Tales of Bygone Fife.  Lang Syne Publishers, Glasgow, Scotland.  No page numbers.  Appears to be an edited reprint of Simpkins 1912 Tales of Bygone Fife.  Also lists a few local cave legend, including one at Bell Craig.

Fleming, D Hay 1973 Guide to St Andrews.  J & G Ines, St Andrews.  62

Shell Guide to Scotland  75, reprinted BC54 9

 

APPIN, CAVES OF see

Young, Ivan 1978 Appin Cave Guide.  30, surveys, map

Young, Ivan 2003 Apprin Cave Guide, Supplement October 2003  27, surveys, map.

McOwan, Rennie 2004 Murder Mystery Tour.  Scots Mag March 280-284.  Glen Stockdale, Salachan Glen and Gleann na h-Iola containing several caves used as refuges in the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite Uprising.

 

APPLECROSS, CAVES OF see SAND CAVE, UAMH NAM BREAGAIRE

see also The Caves of Applecross by Tony Oldham 2004

Lindsay, Bill 1998  Some Applecross Notes.  GSG Ser 4 4 (5) 9, some small caves and sinks which need investigating.

Simpson, Richard 2006  Applecross and Kishorn Report. GSG Ser 4 3 (1) 46-48 S. Shakehole Cave S, Lime Kiln Resurgence S.

Statistical Account 1791-99 3 378 mentions several natural caves in the parish, they seem to be the habitations of the first plundering adventurers who came to the country.  Goes onto describe the remains of a subterranean house.

Warwick, Chris 2005 Some Caving Notes. GSG Ser 4 2 (4) 26 & 31  A sink near 3D Cave, a new cave Uamh an Gobha (Blacksmith's Cave) NGR NG 71 8 445.  Location map of the area.

 

APPLECROSS SANDSTONE FISSURES  NGR NG 6858 4944  1" OS 25       Applecross, Wester Ross

Sandstone Fissures on the Applecross Peninsular, Wester Ross by Steven Birch.  GSG Ser 3 5 (4) 25-27 S

 

ARBROATH, CAVES OF                                                  Landranger 54                                        Arbroath

AA  105, contraction of Aberbrothock and caves, and 109

Adam, John, 1886  Aberbrothock Illustrated ... with historical notes by George Hay.  86, 124 etchings.  T Buncle Arbroath.  pp 40-47 The Cliffs and Caves illus (72) Gaylet Pot, (76) Masons'  Cave, (78) Dickmont's Den, (81) Mermaids' Kirk, (82) Stalactite Cave (dated 1842)

Anon [attributed to James Cramb] 1846/47, Visit to Arbroath.  Dundee Literary and Scientific Institute Magazine 2 243-271  (A manuscript circulation magazine held in Dundee Libraries Local Studies Collection, Catalogue No D22022.  Contents include cliffs and caves 251-262)

Anon 1908 Illustrated Guide to Arbroath.  24 & [20], illus.   J F Hood & Sons, Arbroath.  Caves 16-18

Anon 1919 Arbroath Abbey and its Neighbourhood [2] & 62 & [12], illus.  Herald Office, Arbroath.  Caves 55-69

Anon ND [1930?]  Guide to Arbroath.  64, illus.  Town Improvement Association.  Caves 28-33

Anon 1932 Arbroath Official Guide Book [36] & 55 & [25].  T Buncle & Co for The Arbroath Town Council.  Caves 39-45

ditto 1933; ditto 1927 reprinted BC 9 8-9

Anon [Atkinson, Norman] 1995 By the cliffs to Auchmithie.  Angus and District Council Library and Museums Service.  21 pp.

Aitkin, Rev --- Old Statistical Account of Scotland 12 182-3

Atkinson, Norman [1990?] By the cliffs to Auchmithie.  Describes a cave in the north of the same bay as Forbidden Cave.  see also Anon 1995.

Ballantyne, R M ND [c1900, 1st ed was 1865] The Lighthouse / being the story of a great fight between man and the sea.  Thomas Nelson and Sons, London, Edinburgh, Dublin and New York.  [An example of a real cave, accurately described, appearing in fiction.   Walter Scott's The Antiquary 1816, is also set on this coast, and features a cave, but has considerably more artistic license, and more turgid prose!]

Birlinn 1998  495-496 Gaylet Pot, Arbroath

Broadie, J, 1904 Guide to the Cliff, Caves and coast scenery of Arbroath and District.  44 & [58]. 26 illus, map.  Arbroath Herald Office, Arbroath.  [the most important reference work, plagiarised by all later writers and never acknowledged]

Chisholm, John, (compiler) ND [1973?] Official Guide to Arbroath.  80, illus, map.  Arbroath Publicity Council.  30, illus.

Duncan, U K, 1966 A Bryophyte Flora of Angus.  Trans British Biological Society 5 (1) 1-82.  9 Masons Cove and Deil's Head.

Edward, Rev R, 1678  Edward's Description of the County of Angus, 39, reprinted in Warden, A 1881 Angus or Forfarshire, 2 234-252, reprinted by the Forfar & District Historical Society 1967, 24, translated from the Latin, 21-22 [earliest description of the caves from which most later authorities quote]

Elliott, Danny  Winter 1998-Spring 1999  Seaton Cliffs.  Scottish Wildlife (36) 16-18

Fraser, Duncan, 1967 Discovering Angus & Mearns.  Standard Press, Montrose.  Caves 131

Fraser, Duncan, 1974 Discovering East Scotland.  271.  Standard Press, Montrose.  Caves 23, 5

Fraser, Duncan 1974 Glen of the Rowan Tress and other stories.  Montrose, Standard Press. 126

Gardiner, W 1831 The Tourist No 4th.  Journal of a tour through the eastern part of Forfarshire in June 1831.  By the Editor [William Gardiner Jnr]  Botanical Repository 1 part 4 143-160.  (A manuscript circulation magazine held in Dundee Libraries Local Studies Collection.  Contents include Arbroath cliffs and caves 147-149)

Gardiner, junior, William, 1832  Remarks during a Walk on the Coast of Forfarshire Magazine of Natural History 5 573-576

Gibson, Colin, Nov 1949 Cliffs and Caves of Angus.  Scots Mag 52 (2) 85-91, illus

Gibson, Colin c1950 Folklore of Tayside.  Dundee Museum and Art Gallery Publication.  13 Dragon's Den; 14 Piper's Cave; Dark Cave; 17 Hole Field.

Gibson, 1955  [A series of articles on the caves of Arbroath] Arbroath Herald.  5th 12th 26th, August on page 9.

Gibson, Colin ND [c1956-59] Summer on Tayside.  A Dundee Museum and Art Gallery Publication.  35

Gibson, Colin ND [c1956-59] Autumn on Tayside.  A Dundee Museum and Art Gallery Publication.  30-31, 36

Gibson, Colin ND [c1956-59] Spring on Tayside.  A Dundee Museum and Art Gallery Publication.  11, 24, 37

Gibson ,1966 A wonderland of caves.  Arbroath Herald.  Christmas Edition, illus.

Colin Gibson, 1907-1998 writer artist wrote many newspaper articles in his weekly `Nature diaries' and they appeared in the Dundee Courier and Advertiser from 1954 until his death., after which selected ones continued to be reprinted.  Some early examples were collected in a series of booklets published by Dundee Museum between 1956 and 1959.  Other articles appeared in the weekly  `This is our heritage´ series in the Broughty Ferry Guide & Carnoustie Gazette 1976-84   Personal communication Colin McLeod 4 July 2005

Gibson, Colin, 1974 Tales of Lunan Bay.  Scots Mag.  101 (4) 388-395, illus, map.

Gibson, Colin 1981 The secret passage of smugglers' caves. The Courier.

Gibson, Colin 1981 This is our heritage .. Castlsea Bay, Auchmithie.  Carnoustie Gazette, Saturday, March 28.  5.  Similar series of articles, undated Around Maiden Castle, The Gaylet Pot, The castle Gate, The Landscape around us,  The Smuggling Trade, Smuggling, Local Coastal names.  etc.

Gibson, Colin 1981 Stories and legends of Arbroath's mysterious caves. The Courier June 27.  7.

Gibson, Colin 1995 Nature Diary.  Series of articles in The Courier, undated.

Geikie 57 Geary Pot

Hay, George, 1876 History of Arbroath ... 448.  Thomas Buncle, Arbroath.  Chapter 5 Cliffs and Caves 432-442 illus

Hay, George, see Adam, John

Henderson, I A N, 1990 Discovering Angus and the Mearns.  John Donald Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh.  51-52

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~u02jpg2/arbroath/       Sea Caves of Arbroath, accessed 7.10.05

Hutchinson  2 886 The Needle Eye.  Photo by Valentine & Sons.  894 caves passim.

Lord Ocherlony of Guynd c 1682 Spottiswoode Miscellany 1 320

MacFadyen, Colin 1996 The Whitehouse Den, Gannochy Gorge and Whiting Nessto the Ethie Haven Site of Special Scientific Interest.  Earth Science Site Documentation Series.  16.

Macpherson, Euan, Feb 1997 The Golden Age of Smuggling / Euan Macpherson visits the Arbroath caves and cliffs, one coastal area historically associated with contraband.  Scots Mag NS 146 (2) Feb 1997 130-135

Miller, Hugh, 1877 The Old Red Sandstone ... xxxi & 385 & 16, illus.  William P Nimmo, London.  Caves 213-214

Muirhead 1947 280

New Stat Acc 1845  11  247, 491-492

Robertson, Dr D A (ed) 1972 (2nd ed) Arbroath Cliffs Nature Trail.  23, map, illus.  2nd ed.  Dundee and Angus Branch of the Scottish Wildlife Trust.  [1st ed May 1971, 4th ed late 1990s]

Scott-Moncrieff, Lesley 1963 Scotland's Eastern Coast.  Oliver & Boyd. Edinburgh & London.  62

Seven Valley Caving Club N/L June/July 1971

Shell Guide to Scotland 77 & 84 reprinted BC 54 9

Simpson, A Nicol, 1888 Ornithology of Arbroath (Continued) Scottish Naturalist (New Series) 3  Pagination of full paper is 289-296 & 337-344.  Item 143 Rock Pigeon. 339

Smith, J, 1894 The Geology of the Arbroath Sea Shore (from) The Arbroath Guide, December 8th

Statistical Account 1791-99  12 183 Mentions the caves at Arbroath including Maiden Castle Cave [= Mason's Cave],

Statistical Account 1845 11 492

Steers 1969 78-79

Valentine, Easton S 1912 Forfarshire.  Cambridge County Geographies.  University Press, Cambridge. 4, 35-38

Warden see Edward

Warden, A 1880-85 Angus or Forfarshire, the land and people, description and history.  Alexander, Dundee. 5 116. (nb A comprehensive index was compiled by Russell, G 1961, Arbroath Public Library).

Zealand, Gillian, 2001 Colin Gibson's Nature Diary. Selected from The Courier 1954-1998.  64, 74,75

Zealand Gillian 2004 Gibson, Colin's Nature Diary Selected from The Courier 1954-1998. 2 14, 52, 84

 

ARCHERFIELD CAVE           NGR NT 49 9 858          Landranger 66           North Berwick, East Lothian

Cree, J, 1909 Notice of the excavation of two caves, with remains of early iron age occupation, on the estate of Archerfield, Dirleton.  PSAS NS 43 243-268

Cullingford 1962  301

Curle, James. 1926-27 An inventory of objects of Roman and Provincial Roman origin found on sites in Scotland not definitely associated with Roman Constructions.  PSAS 61 353

Kempe 1988 142

Jones  7

The Antiquary 1909

 

ARD ACHADH, UAMH AN            NGR NG 594 197    1" OS 34                                        Kilbride, Skye

Anon 2006 First ever Iron Age burial on Skye.  Current Archaeology (201) Jan/Feb 456

Birch, Steven  2002  Uamh an Ard Achadh (High Pasture Cave): Deposits of Bone Breccia and Anthropological Indicators from a Limestone Cave on the Island of Skye.  GSG 4 Ser 1 (3) 12-27 S

Birch, Steven  2004  Uamh an Ard Achadh (High Pasture Cave): A window on the prehistory of Strath, Skye.  GSG Ser 4 2 (2) 39-46.  [Iron Age Pig Roast Site.]

Ryder 1995 28-29, 31 S.

Tolson, P 1997  White Rose Pothole Club Jl 17 4 70

Website http://www.high-pasture-cave.org           accessed 17/02/06

Whetton, J H & Myers, J O 1951 Geophysical Survey of Magnetite Deposits in Strath, Isle of Skye.  Transactions of the Geological Society of Glasgow. 21/2  263-77

 

ARDANTRIVE CAVE                      NGR NM 840 302   1" OS 52                                   Oban, Argyllshire

At the northern end of island of Kerrera is a small cave, excavated by T C Lethbridge (1950  7-8).  Finds included Bronze Age pottery, flints and limpet-hammers.

Lethbridge 1950  7-8

RCAHMS 1975  12

Tolan-Smith 6

 

ARD BEAG HEAD CAVE               NGR 217 612           Landranger 23                                              Skye

 

ARDESTIE SOUTERRAIN    NGR NO 512 344     Landranger 54 marked Souterrain     Dundee, Angus

About 7 miles east of Dundee just south of the A 92 road, just after the B962 turning.  Excavated in 1949-51 it is 75 feet long.  It appears to be incomplete  with several roofing slabs missing.  The foundations of contemporary huts were uncovered near by suggests that the souterrain was not a dwelling, the drain running beneath centre of the passage under paving suggests it was  a cow byre.  Finds indicate occupations during the first 3 centuries AD.  Scheduled Monument 90021.  See also Carlungie Souterrain nearby.

GSG Ser 5 5 (5) March 2001 13.

Mackie 185-186

Small, Alan and Lisbeth M Thoms ND [1985?] The Picts in Tayside.  Sponsored by the Graham Hunter Foundation.  Dundee[?].  7, 22, 23, 32 illus.

 

ARDEER RECREATION CLUB    NGR NS 27 1 419    Landranger Stevenson, Ayrshire

Located behind Recreation Park off Old Quarry Road.  This scheduled monument is owned by Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd (ICI) who took over the Nobel dynamite works at Ardeer, and it consists of a subterranean passage and a cave [Scheduled Monument 3415]. 

GSG Ser 5 5 (5) March 2001 9.

Price, G 1997 Cave Conservation Handbook.  Caves Scheduled as Ancient Monuments (SAMs) 14-3 passage and cave.

 

ARDLAIR CAVE                              NGR NG 902 755    Landranger 19          Loch Maree, Wester Ross

MacKenzie, Kenneth C. 2003 [revised edition] Loch Maree / The Jewel in the Crown by Kenneth C MacKenzie 2003  56 pp, 12 colour photos.  56 pp illus.  SB Privately printed by the author.  Ardlair Cave pp 33-42

 

ARDMORE POINT ROCK SHELTER      NGR NM 315 785     Landranger 47    Ardmore Point, Mull.

Cullingford 1962  329

 

ARDNACKAIG FISSURE CAVE      NGR NR 7410 9057       1" OS 52                                     Knapdale

Tolan-Smith  20  illus 7-9

 

ARDNAHOECAVE                         NGR NS 066 574    Landranger 63                                               Bute

 

ARDNAMURCHAN POINT CAVE       NRG 410 670    Landranger 47 Sound of Mull / Lismore area

Anon 1889 Folk-lore and legends-Scotland.  W W Gibbings, 18 Burgh St, London WC.  83-84 Bay of Cells [St Columba's Cave] St Columba sheltered in this cave with a band of freebooters, he converted them.

Parker  46

Sutherland  55-68

 

ARDNOE POINT EAST ROCK SHELTER [1] AND CAVE           NGR NR 774 8 9453           1" OS 52 Tolan-Smith  22                                                                                                                                                Knapdale

 

ARDNOE POINT EAST ROCK SHELTER [2]  NGR NR 7745 9453     1" OS 58                     Knapdale

Tolan-Smith  22

 

**

 

ARDNOE POINT FISSURE CAVE      NGR NR 770 0 9430       1" OS 52                                  Knapdale

Tolan-Smith  22

 

ARDNOE POINT ROCK SHELTER [1]   NGR NR 7680 9395  1" OS 52                                  Knapdale

Tolan-Smith  20

 

ARDNOE POINT ROCK SHELTER [2]   NGR NR 7662 9380  1" OS 52                                  Knapdale

Tolan-Smith  20

 

ARDNOE POINT ROCK SHELTER [3]  NGR NR 7725 9457   1" OS 52                                  Knapdale

Tolan-Smith  19

 

ARDROSSAN CASTLE CAVE       NGR NS 22 8 442    Landranger 70                                      Ardrossan

Glass 1 (1); 1 (4) 19 [detailed account]

 

ARDSHEAL'S CAVE                       NGR NN 008 563    1" OS 46                                          Duror, Appin

aka Uamh nan Eas an Con and Stewart's Cave.

[p 322]  A little over a mile from the church is a great gash in the side of Ben Vair called Lag-na-ha or Eas-nan-con.  The natural chasm has been widened by quarrying operations at a point some way up the hillside, and it is just above the quarry that Ardsheal's Cave may or may not be found.  Charles Stewart, fifth of Ardsheal, was a famous swordsman who fought with, and was the only one who ever wounded Rob Roy.  Ardsheal was tutor to young Appin and led the clan in his stand at Culloden, where the Stewarts suffered heavily.

[p 323 mentions Red Pass Cave at Sgurr Dhearg NGR NN 058 560]

[p 324 Directions] The water descends Lan-na-ha in a series of waterfalls, thus forming different "storeys" as it were, that in which the cave is to be found being in the second flight, just above the quarry.  The precise waterfall under the cave is now indicated by an iron pipe which can easily be seen, a landmark which sticks out prominently and is noticeable for its ugliness.  You have a very stiff climb for about a quarter of a mile up the shear face of the hill on the Duror side of the hollow.  Then you take, sharp left, a track that leads right to a precipitous edge of the chasm, you cautiously slip down the slope until you find yourself in the deep dark gorge through which the stream tumbles.  Right in front of you, well ahead, on the left side which pours down a thin spout of water, clearing the mouth of the big cave which yawns to you on the right.

Donaldson 322, 324-325

MacDonald, Màiri 1988  Lismore, Appin and Benderloch / an area guide for visitors.  West Highland Series (15) 13 illus.

Statistical Account 1845  7 228 Cave of Ardsheal, served as a hiding place for a man named Stewart after the battle of Cullden.

Young,  28 calls the cave Uamh nan Eas an Con.  It is also called Stewart's Cave on an 1875 OS map.  The alternative name Stewart's Cave is used in the October 2003 Supplement to the Appin Guide.

 

ARDWELLCAVE                NGR NX 070 5 4555            Explorer 309                                   Portpatrick

Donaldson, Andrew 1909 The Caves of the Western Sea-Board of Stoneykirk.  Vol XI 62-65 illus.   [in] The Gallovidian, a quarterly magazine published by J Maxwell & Son, Dumfries.  I am grateful to John Pickin for bringing this to my attention.

Irwin, Dave  2004 Two Inhabited Caves in Scotland  GSG Bull Ser 4 2 (2) 34-35, 2 photos.

Macleod 262

 

*ARRAN, CAVES OF                                                        Explorer 361

see BLACK CAVE (aka Monster Cave), BRODICK OLD QUAY CAVES,CORRIE CAVES, DIPPEN HEAD, KING'S CAVE No 9 (also known as Bruce's Cave, Doon Cave, Drumiddon Cave and Fingal's Cave), OSSIAN'S CAVE, PREACHING CAVE, ST MOLIOUS CAVE (aka St Columbia's Cave), SHEEP CAVE, SMUGGLER'S CAVE [1].

 

Anon ND [c1973?] Isle of Arran, Official Guide.  64, no author or publisher.

Craven Pothole Club Jl 5 (2) 94

Glanvill, Peter 1992 The Mines of Arran [limestone and barytes] Descent (105 34, illus

Lacaille, A D 1925 Some ancient crosses in Dumbartonshire and adjoining counties.  PSAS 59 143

Martin 219, 235 King's Cave, Corpich Cave.

Martin c1695  255

MacGregor 1972 132 old sea caves at the back of a raised beach platform. 

Statistical Account 1845 5 55-56

Steers 101 refers to caves at Brodick Old Quay and Sheep Cave.

 

ARROCHAR, CAVES OF

Borthwick, Alister  1st ed 1939 5th ed publisher Hodder & Stoughton.  Always a little further.  not seen

Brown, Dave and Mitchell, Ian 1987 Mountain Days and Bothy Nights.  Luath Press Ltd, Barr, Ayrshire.  11, 13, 14, 15, 16.

 

ARTHUR'S SEAT, CAVEOF          NGR NT275 730    Landranger 66                                      Edinburgh

Dennision, David.  1997 The Arthur's Seat Mystery.  Scots Mag 146 Aug (8) 204-205.  A tale from 1936 of 5 schoolboys and 2 dogs opening a minute cave containing 17 tiny coffins.

Jeffreys, Alan L.  2002  A Mystery on Arthur's Seat / With further consideration of various cavities there.   GSG Ser 4 1 (2) 10-12.  refers to an article in `The Scotsman' 16 July, 1836 20 (1724)

 

*ASSYNT, CAVES OF                                                       Explorer 442 etc

see Lawson, T J ed 1988 Caves of Assynt.  [pub] Grampian Speleological Group Occasional Publication (6) The Limestones and Caves of Scotland, Part 2.  89, 17 photos, figs.  7 page bibliography, not list here.  This book is at present out of print, but I am assured that a new edition is about to be published.

Anderson 1863 694

Anon 13.9.05 Geopark boost for tourism industry.  Courier.

Anon 2003 North West Seaboard. Places to visit for wildlife and landscapes.  Bilingual, English / Gaelic.  17, 18.

Anon Winter 2003-2004  Fragile Gems in Scotland's underworld.  Earth Heritage (21) 27-28, illus

Anon Winter 2003/2004 Inchnadamph Bone Caves [brochure]

Atkinson, Tom 1986 The Empty Lands.  Luath Press Ltd, Barr, Ayrshire.  127

Belshaw, Clare ND [2006?] Inchnadamph Bone Caves / Uamhan nan Cnàmhan Innis nan Damh  bilingual brochure English Gaelic A2 folded to A6

Chapman, Philip 1993 Caves and Cave Life.  New Naturalist Series No 79.  106, 210

Cree, Jame E, and Ritchie, James, 1927 Preliminary Report on caves containing Palaeolithic relics near Inchnadamph, Sutherland. PSAS 61 169-172

Cullingford 1962 148, 180-181, 297-298,

Gibson, Colin 1952 The Wonders of Assynt. Scot Mag 56 (6) Mar 460-467, illus.

Goodenough, Kathryn 2000 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in the Assynt Region.  1, Ben More, 2, Cam Loch, 3, Knochan Cliff, 4, Loch Glencoul.  Earth Science Management Brief Project.  96 Caves & Karst.

Gordon, J E, and Sutherland, D G, 1993 Quaternary of Scotland. Chapman & Hall, London etc.  127-133 Creah nan Uamh

GSG Ser 5 5 (5) March 2001 10.  Creag nan Uamh NGR NC 268 170  Scheduled Monument  606

Heys, B, Myers, J O, and Packman G 1952 Hydrology of the Elphin Area, Sutherland.  CGR N/L (41) 5-6

http://www.snh.org.uk/scripts-snh/nw-displ.asp?ID=1157  accessed 18/04/2004   Press release, "Get out of your car" message from Scottish Natural Heritage's new Bone Caves leaflet.

Jeffreys, Alan, 1967 Recent work in the Knockan Region of Sutherland.  J Brit Spel Assoc 6 (41) April 30-33

Jeffreys, Alan L, 1990 Descent in Assynt.  Scots Mag Jan  132 (4) 370-377, illus.

Lawson, Tim, 1997  The Quaternary geomorphology of Inchnadamph NNR.  Scottish Natural Heritage Review (64) 46, 15 photos.  Creag nan Uamh caves.

Lawson, T J (ed)  1988  Caves of Assynt.  Occasional Publication  No 6 GSG 90, maps, photos etc.

Lawson, Tim 1999 High and Dry.  Earth Heritage (12) July, 17, illus.

Lawson, Tim 1995  The Quaternary of Assynt and Coigach Area /Field Guide.  Quaternary Research  Association.  161.  Karst Geomorphology by T C Atkinson, T J Lawson, N J Hebdon 61-103 Assynt Caves.  Excursions 132-146 Assynt Caves.  References 147-162.

Lawson, Tim 2002 Classic Landforms of the Assynt and Coigach Area.  Geographical Association.  34-45 Assynt Caves.

MacKemzie, Alexander  1989 [1st ed 1877] The Prophecies of the Brahan Seer.  Constable, London. 33, collapsed of natural arch.  91 ditto.

McKirdy, Alan, 2002 Rock of Ages.  Scots Mag Nov 456-458 Knockan Crag Visitor Centre.

McKirdy, Alan, John Gordon and Roger Crofts 2007  Land of Mountain and Flood / The Geology and Landforms of Scotland.  Birlinn   110, 175  An underground world - Assynt Bone Caves

Moore, C, 1958  A New Cave in Scotland [Cnoc Nan Uamh System] BC 30  109-110

Noble, Robin, 2003  North and West / Exploring the north and west Highlands and Islands of Scotland.  Scottish Cultural Press, Edinburgh.

Peach, B N. and Horne, J, 1917 The Bone Cave in the Valley of Allt nan Uamh, near Inchnadamph.

Price, G 1997 Cave Conservation Handbook.  Caves Scheduled as Ancient Monuments (SAMs) 14-3 Allt nan Uamh.

Price, G 1997 Cave Conservation Handbook. Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSIs)  41-2  548 Allt nan Uamh Caves; 549 Tragill Caves; 1129 Tragill Valley (karst); 1490 Creag nan Uamh Caves and 1491 Bear Cave (Pleistocene Vertebra

Salvona, J and Jenkinson, J 1959 Caving Holidays near Inchnadamph, Sutherland BC 32 80-2

Seenan, Gerard, 13.4.05 Scottish nature reserve recognised as geopark.  Guardian

Statistical Account 1791-99  16 195  A large cave at Losty-su-il-vine, another at Knochan, also a very spacious one at Cul-kin-ach-na-karan, Go-an-dunan, otherwise called Go-na-kal-man

Statistical Account 1845  15 106  Assynt.  "There are several caves, and some natural arches, to be found, chiefly along the coast, and some in the interior.  There are two which are often visited by tourists, within two miles of the parish church, on the Stronchrubie farm.  In one of these, if you enter, you must proceed in a creeping posture for several yards, through a rugged and dark passage, when you find yourself suddenly introduced into a well-lighted and spacious apartment.  There is another cave of large dimensions near the point of Store.  NGR NC 020 358

Young, I R; Lawson, T J and Dowswell, P N F, 2005  A baseline survey of the significant cave feature in the Ben More Assynt SSI.  Scottish Natural Heritage Commissioned report No 086 (ROAME No F02AC105)  66, photos, survey.  Describes 4 caves: Cnoc nan Uamh, Lower Tragill Cave, Allt nan Uamh Stream Cave and Uamh an Claonite.

Waltham, AC; Simms, MJ; Farrant, A R; and H S Goldie 1997 Karst and Caves of Great Britain.  Chapman and Hall, London etc. Chapter 8 Karst in Scotland.  301 Assynt.  302 Tragill Valley.306 Allt nan Uamh Caves.

Wilkinson, P 1953a Allt nan Uamh-the Bone Caves. Cave Res Bull (2) SUMC 9-11

Wilkinson P, 1953b Allt nan Uamh Cave. Cave Res Bull (2) SUMC 12-16

 

ATTADALE HOUSE CAVE       NGR NG 925 394       Landranger 25   Loch Carron, Ross-shire

Speleo SWECC N/L 12 (1) 22

 

AUCHENGRAY SOUTERRAIN     NGR NT 055 508    Landranger 72                                  Lanarkshire

Marked on Landranger 72 as Souterrain

Grant 168

 

AUCHTERHOUSE CAVES             NGR NO 330 375    1"OS 50                             Forfar, Auchterhouse

"At no great distance from the House of Auchterhouse, and in other parts of the parish, some of those subterraneaous abodes, called weems, have been found, one of which contained the stones of a hand-mill and some bones, and a brass ring, and another the bones of some animal, and a parcel of ashes of burned wood; and near the bottom of the south declivity of the Hill of Sidla, stands a Druidical altar in a very entire state".  [A souterrain]

Statistical Account 1845 11 651

 

AULDAME SEA CAVE                    NGR NT 599 848    Landranger 67                              North Berwick

BC 77 39

 

BADGERS DEN see TOLL NAM BROC CAVE

 

BAGH BAN CAVE                           cNGR NR 775 033   1" OS 52                          Knapdale, Argyllshire

Campbell & Sandeman 6

Tolan-Smith 9

 

BAGH NA CILLE ROCKSHELTER    cNGR NM 001 769  1" OS 52                     Knapdale, Argyllshire

On the west side of Loch Craignish, a rockshelter with a masonry wall.

Campbell & Sandeman 6

Tolan-Smith 9

 

BAGH NA H-UAMHA [1]                NGR NM 420 972   Landranger 39                                            Rhum

GSG Ser 5 5 (5) March 2001 9.

Love, John A  2001  Rum: A Landscape without figures.  Birlinn, Edinburgh.  20, 30, 31, 36.

Rixson 26, 35, 43, 60, 66, 142

http://www.geograph.org.uk/view.php?id=29670

 

BAGH NA H-UAMHA [2]                NGR NF 90 55        Landranger 22                                     North Uist

(Gaelic Bay of Caves)  On the east coast between Benbecula and North Uist is the island of Ronay (Gaelic ròn and Norse øy - Seal Island)   Haswell-Smith 202 and location map 203.

 

BAINTIGNEARNA, UAHM            NGR NR 400 990    Landranger 60                                               Mull

 

BALLACHULISH, CAVE AT          NGR NN 05 0 600    Landranger 41              Ballachulish, Argyllshire

Statistical Account 1791-99  8 420.

 

BALNAKEIL GLOUP CAVE           NGR NC 381 688    1" OS 9                                                    Durness

Anderson 1863 678

Cullingford 1962  180

Ford 1955  152-3

Ford, T D, 1959 Stalactites below sea level CRG N/L (68/9) 2

 

BALNAMOON'S CAVE                  NGR NO 395 833    Landranger 44                Glen Mark, Angus Glen

aka Bonnymune's Cave, Glenmark

Dorward 23, 34, 85

Elder, David 2007 In Search of Balnamoon.  Scots Mag  166 (2) Feb 142-144, photo.  Balnamoon's Cave.

Fraser, Duncan 1974 Glen of the Rowan Tress and other stories.  Montrose, Standard Press. 19

Gibson, Colin  19??  Glen Mark's forsaken eyries.  The Courier.

Gibson, Colin 19?? The "Rebel Laird".  The Courier.

Gibson, Colin ND [c1956-59] Summer on Tayside.  A Dundee Museum and Art Gallery Publication.  21

Gibson, Colin 1984 The Balnamoon mystery.  The Courier

Gibson, Colin 2004 Nature Diary Volume 2 Selected from The Courier 1954-1998.40

GSG 4th Ser 1 (4) March 2003 pp 11-12 S      .

McGilip, Donald 2007 In Search of Balnamoon.  Scots Mag 166 (4) April 441 reader's letter refers to 2 more nearby caves as Balnamoon's Cave  NGR 3944 8327 & 369 831

Marshall, William 1875  Historic Scenes in Forfarshire.  William Oliphant & Co, Edinburgh. 256-257.

 

BALQUIDIDER CAVE                    NGR NN 516 212    Landranger 57               Balquhidder, Perthshire

 

BANKEND POT                               NGR NS 795 329    Landranger 71              near Craigend, Coalburn

Glass SS Jl 1 (4) 5;  Glass SS N/L Oct 1966

 

BARLOCCO, CAVES OF                NGR NX 788 488    Explorer 321                                      Dalbeattie

Barnett 64, Barlocco and Orroland caves

Dick reprinted BC 9 9-10  Caves in Galloway - between Auchencairn and Dundrennan on the coast ... At the end of Barlocco Bay .... Great Cave of Barlocco ... Coves or Caves of Coveland... and at Graignarget

Dick 73, reprinted BC 36 38

Dumfriess-shire & Galloway Natural History and Archaeological Society: Transactions. 1880-83  Series II 3 61

Harper, Malcom M'L 1896 Rambles in Galloway 2nd ed  59, reprinted BC 36 59

Macleod 173,

Platt, Richard 1991  Smugglers Britain.  Cassell.  full text and some pictures was available at: 

http://www.smuggling.co.uk/web/text/smug65.htm   but this has now been delete.  The author can be contacted at:

http://www.smuggling.co.uk/details.html          accessed 12.07.07

Shaw, W T, 1974  The Mines of Auchencairn Mem NC&MRS 2 (4) 163-174

Sloan, 94,  Black and White Coves both afforded settings to S R Crockett's The Raiders and Scott's Guy Mannering

Statistical Account 1845  4 356  "Two caverns upon the Barlocco shore, called the White and Black Cove".

Young, Ivan 2004 The Black and White Caves of Barlocco.  GSG Bul Ser 4 2 (2) 15-18

 

BARRA, CAVES OF

Bock, Bettina and Eric Zehmke 1987 Caving in the Outer Hebrides.  BC 101 18-20

Branigan, Ken and Foster, Patrick,  1995 BARRA / Archaeological Research on Ben Tangaval.  This is the first of a series of volumes recording the fieldwork of the University of Sheffield Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides.  These first reports focus on the wild and rocky peninsular of Tangaval in the south west of Barra.  In this seemingly inhospitable place the team discovered almost 250 sites, ranging from rock shelters dated around 4000 BC to the settlements abandoned when the inhabitants sailed to America and Australia in the mid 19th century.

 

BARRA see OUTER HEBRIDES

Bock, Bettina and Eric Zehmke 1987 Caving in the Outer Hebrides.  BC 101 18-20

Branigan, Ken and Foster, Patrick,  1995 BARRA / Archaeological Research on Ben Tangaval.

 

BARRACKAN ROCK SHELTER  NGR NM 774 036?      1" OS 52                                           Knapdale

Campbell & Sandeman 6, No 3

 

BARR CHALLTUIN, UAMH          cNGR NR 862 730  1" OS 58                          Loch Fyne, Argyllshire

Campbell & Sandeman 8

Tolan-Smith 9

White 84

 

BARR DRISEACH ROCK SHELTER     NGR NR 7040 8017 1" OS 58                                     Knapdale

Tolan-Smith 22

 

BARRIE'S see JEANIE BARRIES' CAVE

 

BARR NAM FUARAM NORTH ROCK SHELTER   NGR NR 7422 8886    1" OS 52             Knapdale

Tolan-Smith  21

 

BARR NAM FUARAM ROCK SHELTER     NR 7387 8880             1" OS 52                          Knapdale

Tolan-Smith  22 No 104 KL

 

BARR NAM FUARAM SOUTH ROCK SHELTER [1]   NGR NR 7422 8885    1" OS 52       Knapdale

Tolan-Smith 18

 

BARR NAM FUARAM SOUTH ROCK SHELTER [2]      NGR NR 742 2 8885    1" OS 52     Knapdale

Tolan-Smith  19

 

BASS ROCK CAVE                          NGR NT 602 873    Landranger 67                         off North Berwick

Anon ND [early 1970s] East Lothian District Council / Department of Leisure, Recreation and Tourism / The Bass Rock.  IC/9

Anon  1982 reprint.  The Bass Rock.  Largo Field Studies Society.  1-2

Baxter 528

Brazier, Paul; Davies, Jon; Holt, Rohan; and Eleanor Murray 1998 South-east Scotland and north-east England / Area summaries.  Joint Nature Conservation Committee.  17-22 sub-littoral caves.

Crie, Rev T M et al 1848 The Bass Rock, its civil and ecclesiastical history, geology, martyology, zoology, and botany.  436, illus.  Edinburgh. 84-5 part of the geology  section by Hugh Miller

Croal, D, 1904 Sketches of East Lothian.  4th ed 220.  The Courier, Haddington.  Cave 145

Dickson, John, 1899 Emeralds Chased in Gold: or The Islands of the Forth; There Story, Ancient and Modern. 323, illus.  Oliphant Anderson & Ferron, Edinburgh 154-155  Bass Rock Cave with a good description from Hugh Miller, Geology of the Bass.

Grant, Donald C; Bunyan, Stephen A; Goring, Thomas M; Long, Hamish; Martin William, R; and Monaghan, Wallace 1974 The Bass Rock / An introduction by the Visual Aids Group of The East Lothian Committee for Research in Education, with a foreword by H George Waterston.  East Lothian County  Council Education Committee.

GSG 4 (3) 4

Haswell-Smith 408-410, cave mentioned on 410

Lane, Jane 1st ed 1950, Fortress in the Forth.  Andrew Dakers Ltd, London.   183, 224-226, 261, location map.

Pennant  58 and opposite a hand coloured plate showing cave entrances.

Scots Mag 1966  526,

Steers 268

Tindall 265

Tranter, Nigel March 1966 The Bass.  Scots Mag 84 (6) 523-531  

 

BEALACH NA MOINE ROCK SHELTER [1]       NGR NR 769 8 9196     1" OS 52      Knapdale

 

BEALACH NA MOINE ROCK SHELTER [2]      NGR NR 768 0 9162       1" OS 52    Knapdale

Tolan-Smith  22

 

BEALACH NA MOINE ROCK SHELTER [3]      NGR NR 765 0 9143       1" OS 52    Knapdale

Tolan-Smith  23

 

BEALACHANUARAN GROTTO                             NGR NN 095 093         Landranger  56      Inveraray

Alternative name: Bealach Fhuarain Wellhead.

Buxbaum, Tim 1989  Scottish Garden Buildings / from Food to Folly.  Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh.  145-146, illus.

http://inverary.webbiz.co.uk/pages/content.asp?PageID=118    accessed 18.10.05

Headley 51

 

BEALACH NA MOINE ROCK SHELTER [1]       NGR NR 769 8 9196     1" OS 52                 Knapdale

 

BEALACH NA MOINE ROCK SHELTER [2]       NGR NR 768 0 9162     1" OS 52                 Knapdale

Tolan-Smith  22

 

BEALACH NA MOINE ROCK SHELTER [3]       NGR NR 765 0 9143     1" OS 52                 Knapdale

Tolan-Smith  23

 

BEARRERAIGBAYCAVE             NGR NG 515 525    Landranger 23                                               Mull

 

BEINN AN CAILLICH CAVE                                  NGR NG 600 233         Landranger 32               Skye

Speleo SWETCC N/L 12 (2) 63-4

 

BEINN AN DUBHAICH CAVE                                NGR NG 589 184         Landranger 32               Skye

Faulkner, T. 1974 Beinn an Dubaich Cave Rising.  CDG N/L NS. (32) 12

Jeffreys, A L 1980 Meet Report.  25.10.80.  GSG Logbook (3) 215-6

Pryer, Colin 2004 Cave Dives on Skye.  Bull GSG Ser 4 2 (2) 11-12 survey.  Rising is connected to Beinn an Dubhaich Cave.

 

BEINN EIBHNE CAVE                   NGR 380 905           Landranger 60                                       Colonsay

 

BEL CRAIG (OR CRAG) POTHOLE                      NGR NO 541 109         Landranger 59         Fifeshire

BC 78 40-41 sketch survey.

Yuill 21

 

BELLANOCH HILL ROCKSHELTER                   cNGR NR 797 921       1" OS 58                Knapdale

Campbell & Sandeman 6

Tolan-Smith  9, 17

 

BELLOCHANTUY CAVE                                         NGR NR 6630 3229     1" OS 65                    Kintyre

aka BELLACHAGHAOCHAM CAVE

Bede 1861 2 147 quotes Hebrides p 197,  "Dined at a tolerable house at Barr, visited the great cave of Beallachaocham, near the shore, embarked in a leaky rotten boat". [from Boswell & Johnson?]

Bede 1861 2 147;  ibid 2 185, 188, 244

Statistical Account 1845 7 378   Bealochachaochean, one of the largest caves, contains a spring of excellent water, without any visible outlet.

 

BELLOUECAVE                                                       NGR 0123 5260   Explorer 30                        Stanraer

Bond, Clare 2000 Morroch Bay, Site of Special Scientific Interest.  Earth Science Management Brief Project.

 

BENACHULLY, CAVES OF            NGR NO 070 490    Landranger 52                         Clunie, Perthshire

Statistical Account 1791-99  9 257

Statistical Account 1845 10 1025

 

BEN LOYAL CAVE                          cNGR NC 567 494  1" OS 10                                              Sutherland

Report by Jim Salvona.

 

BENNAN HEAD CAVE                   NGR NX 091 866    1" OS 72                                                     Girvan

Brotchie, T C F [1911?] Rambles in Arran.  61, illus 31

Glas SS Jl 1 (1)

GSG 3 (3) 9

Hall 1912 47

Hall, T S, 1947 Tramping in Arran.  3rd ed.  Falkirk.  112, illus.  Caves 54, 73

MacBride  33 reprinted BC 23 56;  34 55

M'Arthur  85

Robertson, Elizabeth 1993  Snib Scott, Banker to Caveman.  Scot Mag 139 (2) 141-144, illus.

Statistical Account 1845 5 55-56

 

BERNERAY, CAVES OF           NGR NL 54 9 802        Landranger 31    Outer Hebrides

Two islands with the same name about 100 km apart.  Glad I am not a postman.  

Earnshaw, K W [editor] The RAFOS Expedition to Berneray and Mingulay 10 June to 6 July 1985.  Journal The Royal Air Force Ornithological Society. (17) January 1987.  22 refers to a large cave at Sloc Greiligeo NGR NL 560 797 and Townley's Cave.

Haswell-Smith 167 location map, refers to this cave as Sloc na Beiste (Gaelic - Ravine of the Monster).

Sutherland  139

 

BERNERAY                                NGR NF 9 1 83              Landranger 18             North Uist

A small island to the north of North Uist.  Martin 68

 

BERNIE, CAVE NEAR                    NGR NJ 22 62         1" OS 29                                  Elgin, Morayshire

Statistical Account 1791-99  9 163  A cave in the middle of a steep huge rock.  Geldloch was according to tradition, inhabited 100 years ago by a band of ruffians.

 

BHEAG, UAMH                        NGR NN 70 0 119            1" OS 54                            Callender, Perthshire

David Foster, personal communication 17 Aug 2004

McOwan, Rennie 1994 The Cradle of Kidnapped.  Scots Mag 154 (12) Dec 602-609

McOwan, Rennie 2004 Bothy Ballard.  Scots Mag March 252

 

BHREACHAN'S, UAMH                 NGR NM 688 008   1" OS 52                         Baghan Muc Bay, Jura

Bede 1861 1 304

Haswell-Smith 44

Martin 237

Murray 55-57, 73, 74

Parker  46

Thornber 463

Tolan-Smith  8

 

BIG CAVE see KEIL CAVE and see also under *JURA, CAVES OF.

 

BILLY MARSHALL'S (or Mershall) CAVE       NGR NX 49 9 678     1" OS 80                           Galloway

Blackwood's Magazine 1817

Fleming, M, 1969 A Hunt for Two Caves.  The Scots Magazine, NS 90 (4) Jan 356-364, illus

MacCormick, Andrew  1906 The Tinkler-Gypsies of Galloway.  not seen

Macleod  37, 107

Holmes  49

 

BINNS, THE                                      NGR NT 050 775    Landranger                                              Bo'ness

Inland from Blackness on the Forth and once connected by an underground passage to the port is the mansion of Binns, home of General Tam Dalyell in 1630.  About 1881 Sir Robert Dalyell had the underground passage walled up as visitors entering it had been affected by bad air and a dog which venture down did not return.  The entrance is believed to be under the eastern tower.

Lang, Theo 1st ed 1952 Edinburgh and the Lothians / The Queen's Scotland.  Hodder & Stoughton, London.  157, 159.

 

BLACK CAVE                                   NGR NR 994 203    Explorer 361                       Bennan Head, Arran

aka The Monster Cave

Anderson 1863 106

Brotchie, T C F [1911?] Rambles in Arran.  61, illus 31

Glas SS Jl 1 (1)

GSG 3 (3) 9

Hall 1912 47

Hall, T S, 1947 Tramping in Arran.  3rd ed.  Falkirk.  112, illus.  Caves 54, 73

MacBride  33 reprinted BC 23 56;  34 55

MacGregor 1972 157

M'Arthur  85

Statistical Account 1845 5 55-56

 

BLACK CAVE see BARLOCCO, CAVE OF

 

BLACK CAVE                       NGR NX 0575 7091            Explorer 309                                          Stranraer

Macleod 248

 

BLACKMILLBAYCAVE              NGR NM 734 8 0822                    Explorer 359                           Oban

Haswell-Smith 60 location map.

 

BLACKNESSCASTLE                    NGR NT 055 803    Landranger

Crae, John 2001 Caves, Cairns, Tunnels, Passages and Pits, Part 2 GSG Ser 4 1 (1) 35  A prison pit.  See also BINNS, THE

 

BLASTER HOLE                NGR HY 622 028        Landranger 6                      Horse of Copinsay, Orkney

Haswell-Smith  289-290

 

BOAT CAVE                                     NGR NM 323 351   Landranger 46                        Staffa, Argyllshire

Anon 1833 Some Accounts of Natural Caverns and Grottos.  Saturday Magazine (42) 79 [in Platten's Notes 25]

Black's 1873 480

Donaldson 388

Keddie  51-52

MacCulloch1927b  24

MacCulloch 1934  59 and on

MacDonald  19

MacNab  218

Muirhead  351

Murray 1805 39

Murray 1810 108

Shaw 8 Item 34

 

BO DUBHA, UAMH NAM              NGR NR 6996 7222        1" OS 58                   Knapdale, Argyllshire

aka Old Tobermory's Cave.

Campbell & Sandeman 8, No 34

Tolan-Smith 9, 15-16 S

 

BOES' CAVE                                     NGR NR 688 074    1" OS 65                          Dunaverty, Argyllshire

Bede 1861 1 200

Bede  171

McKerral, A, 1948 Kintyre in the 17 century.  Oliver and Boyd, London.  61-62

Macvicar, Rev Angus J  1965  The book of Blaan/A personal history of Southend. pub privately.  48-51

Smith, Wm 1835 June Views of Campbelton & Neighbourhood.  pub by the author Edinburgh.  19 "to be sent to France with one hundred country fellows whom we had smoked out of a cave, as [20] they do foxes",

Statistical Account 1845 7 414

White 1873  110-111

 

BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE'S CAVE see PRINCE CHARLIE'S CAVE

Andrew  13, Bonnie Prince Charlie spent a week on Skye: 29 June - 4 July 1746

Douglas, Hugh, and Stead Michael J 2000 The flight of bonnie Prince Charlie.  190 pp, illus.  Sutton, Glos.  

 

BORERY see OUTER HEBRIDES

 

BORLAND FARM CAVES             NGR NT 062 462    1" OS                                 Walston, Lanarkshire

Two caves on Borland Farm, in the vicinity of Walston Well.  One is 40 feet long, 3 feet wide and 5 feet high.  The vein of heavy spar is reputed to have been mined by Germans in 1526

Statistical Account 1845 6 850-851

 

BORNESS CAVE                              NGR NX 621 447    1" OS 80                           Borgue, Kirkcudbright

Anon 1864-65 Borness Cave, Field Meeting.  Dumfries & Galloway NH & AS Ser 11 (3) 67

Blake  59, 81

Bryson, Alexander 1850 Borness Cave [?] Edinburgh New Phil Journal. not seen

Childe, P S,  239-241

Childe, Gordon V, 1940  Prehistoric Communities of the British Isles.  245

Clarke, W B, and Johnson, R T, 1874  On the osseous remains of the Borness Bone Cave.  PSAS 10 499-507

Clarke, W.B. (1876) Notice of excavations in the Borness Cave in the summer of 1874. PSAS 11 305-309

Clarke, W.B. (1878) Final report on the Borness exploration. PSAS 12 669-681

Corrie, A.J., Clarke, W.B. & Hunt, A.R. (1875) On a cave containing bones and objects of human workmanship at Borness, Kirkcudbrightshire. PSAS 10  476-507

Corrie, Adam J, William Bruce Clarke and Arthur R Hunt 1874  On a cave containing bones and objects of human workmanship at Borness, Kirkcudbrightshire.  PSAS 10 476-499 plates xvii-xxii

Cullingford 1962  302

Curle, J. (1932) An inventory of objects of Roman and provincial Roman origin found on sites in Scotland not definitely associated with Roman constructions. PSAS 66 332-333.

Glas SS Jl 1 (4)

Holmes  53

Hunt, A R, 1883 The Borness Cave.  Rep Brit Assoc 53Trans Sect 561

Jones  10

Kilbride-Jones, H.E. (1938) Glass armlets in Britain. PSAS 72 374-375.

Macleod 179

McTaggart, John 1824  The Gallovididian Encylopedia. London, refers to this cave as Carlines Cove

Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (1914) Fifth Report and Inventory of Monuments and Constructions in Galloway, II, County of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright. RCAHMS, Edinburgh.

Robertson, A.S. (1970) Roman finds from non-Roman sites in Scotland. Britannia 1: 198-226.

Scott, J.G. (1976) The Roman occupation of South-West Scotland from the recall of Agricola to the withdrawal under Trajan. Glasgow Archaeological Journal 4: 42.

Sloan  151

Stevenson, R.B.K. (1976) Romano-British glass bangles. Glasgow Archaeological Journal 4: 46.

 

BRAEMAR, CAVES OF                  NGR NO 260 950    Landranger 44                Crathie, Aberdeenshire

Statistical Account 1845 12 650

 

BRAES OF CRASKIE CAVE      NGR NH 30 0 345        Landranger 26            Cannich, Inverness-shire

Barnett 115-116

 

BRANDARSAIGBAYCAVE[1]    NGR NG 254 392    Landranger 23                                              Skye

 

BRANDARSAIGBAYCAVE[2]    NGR NG 255 393    Landranger 23                                              Skye

 

BRANDY CAVE see under ARBROATH

 

BRANDYCAVE                   NGR NX  883 541               Explorer 313                                   Portling Bay

Macleod 132

 

BRANDY CAVE                               NGR NO 681 437    Landranger 54                                        Arbroath

 

BREACAN'S  CAVE   see BHREACHAN'S CAVE

 

BREAGAIRE, UAMH NAM           NGR NG 717 438    1" OS 25                          Applecross, Ross-shire

Mehew, B. 1977 Uamh nam Breagaire, Applecross.  Bull GSG 2nd Series. 1 (5) 35

Ryder, P. 1982.  Expedition to Skye and Applecross, 1982.  Bull GSG 2nd Series 3 (5) 30

 

BREDDOCK CAVE                         NGR                         Landranger Port Logan

Smith, Gavin D 2003 The Scottish Smuggler  74 Breddock Cave in Clanyard Bay, west coat of the Rhinns, just south of Port Logan.  Smugglers' caves in Mull Heads.

 

BRINDLE'S RIFT CAVE                 NGR NG 729 443      1" OS 25         Applecross, Ross and Cromarty

GSG Ser 3 4 (5) 9-10

 

BRUCE'S CASTLE CAVE               NGR NR 868 687    Explorer 357                                             Tarbert

A cave beneath the ruined castle.

Carmichael, Alasdair Sept 1970 Better than all the Isles.  Scots Mag 93 (6) 517-527, illus.

 

BRUCE'S CAVE [1]  NGR NY 265 705  Landranger 85 (marked),    Kirkpatrick Fleming, Dumfriesshire

AA 202

Aberdeen Press and Jl 17-2-49

Anon 1969 Bruces Cave  CSS N/L 12 (3) 26-27

BC 8 5 reprint of Mclagan 1875  The Hill Forts and Stone Circles etc

BC 60 12

Coles, F R 1911 Notice of rock-hewn caves in the valley of the Esk and other parts of Scotland.  PSAS 45 299-300

Descent (190) 7  The Earl of Elgin proposes a Robert the Bruce Heritage Trail.

JSH 8 (3/4) 33

Kempe 1988 234

Mason, Edmund J 1977  Caves and Caving in Britain 94

MCG N/L (94) [6]

Mombasa Times, Kenya 12-4-51

Oldham T & A 1972 Discovering Caves 24-25.  Shire Press, Tring

RRCPC Jl (6) 1971-72  25

Statistical Account 1791-99  13 273.  Description of Robert the Bruce's Cave, but the cave is not named.

WCCJl 8 (94) 58-59

 

BRUCE'S CAVE [2] see KING'S CAVE, Arran

 

BRUCE'S CAVE [3] see JEDBURGHCAVE

 

BRUCE'S CAVE [4]                          NGR NN 290 060    1"OS 53                                                  Arrochar

BC 32 44

Butler ,J, 1962 Fissure Caves.  East Devon Caving Group.  Caving (1) 6

Cooper, R G 1983 Mass Movement Caves in Great Britain.  Studies in Speleology 4 40

 

BUCKHAVEN GASWORK'S CAVES        NGR NT 34 7 974  Landranger 59   East Wemyss, Fifeshire

see East Wemyss, Caves of, for references.

 

BUDDO ROCK CAVES                   NGR NO 55 30        Landranger 54                                          Dundee

Merrill 164

Scots Mag 112 (6) 666 photo.  March 1980

Silver, Section 4

Steers 261 a number of caves all associated with the 25 ft level.  The NGR puts these caves in the sea.

 

BURGHEAD AND BRANDERBURGH    NGR NJ 23 71        Landranger                                        Nain

Jones, Duncan 1998 A Wee Guide to the Picts.  Edinburgh & Musselburgh, Goblinhead. 48 Burghead Well NGR NJ 110 690.  Reach by a flight of worn steps.

Shepherd, Ian 2nd ed 1996 [1st ed was 1986] Aberdeen and North-East Scotland.  HMSO, Edinburgh.  141.

Steers 224 "The low cliffs between Burghead and Branderburgh are for the most part old cliff, now out of reach of the waves.  There is locally a path or rough road at their foot.  The contain some caves, and are also associated with the rock bench".

 

BURGHEADCASTLECELLAR    NGR NJ 10 9 691     Landranger                                                Moray

At the east end of the word is the great well chamber, cut out of solid rock, with a water-filled cistern surrounded by a platform. Despite later modifications, this well is thought to have belonged originally to the Pictish fort.

Anon 1981 Burghead Well.  Ancient Monuments of Scotland.  Scottish Development Department.  Brochure.

Anderson 1863 491, 492

Ritchie 135-136

 

BULLERS OF BUCHAN                        NGR NK 110 381        Landranger 30   Cruden Bay

AA  123, 138, plate 25

Beautiful Britain 1 69 illus

Boswell, J, 1773 The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson (reprinted BC 14 83)

Chapman 18, 222-223

Complete Scotland by Ward Lock and Co reprinted BC 31 69

Delaney  122

Douglas, Francis 1826 A General Description of East Scotland ...    274  D Chambers & Co, Aberdeen (first printed Alexandra Weir, Paisley 1782) 228

Geikie 46 engraving

Gorton, John 1831 Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland [not seen]

Hutchinson 1 44, 69 photo, Valentine &Sons Ltd.  Also shown are "Rocks in Cruden Bay" and the "Twa Een" or two eyes - rock arches.

Laughlan 25

Lockhart  259 (Sir Walter Scott's visit)

MacTaggart, Fiona 1998  Bulers of Buchan Coast. SSI.  Earth Science Site Documentation Series.  42

Maine  61 refers to Johnson's visit

May & Hanson  Bullers of Buchan, Aberdeenshire 103 - 107, map, photo.  Map shows the location of nine caves, but unfortunately they are not named..

Muirhead  320

Muirhead 1947 320

Pennant 1724  130, with a wood cut opposite.

Rogers 47 engraving, 48, 51

O'Brian 49

Statistical Account 1791-99  5  435 & 436 "Of caves there are a good number, but none of them remarkable."

Steers 234

Stuckley, E, 1956 A Hebridean Journey with Johnson & Boswell 37-38

 

BURGHEAD CAVES                    NGR NJ 18 0 710             Landranger 28           near Elgin, Morayshire

Scott-Moncrief 155

Elgin Past & Present

 

BURNTISLAND SEA CAVES         NGR NT 23 0 850    1" OS 55                              Burtisland, Fifeshire

Statistical Account 1845 9 405

 

*BUTE, CAVES OF THE ISLE OF including Great and Little Cumbrae Islands                                        

                                                                                   NGR NS 060 620       Landranger 63              Buteshire

see also Claremont Cave, King's Cave [2], Monk's Cave and Waterloo Cave.

Anon ND Nature Trail No 5.  South end of Bute.  The Bute Natural History Society.

Bryce, T H, 1904 On the cairns and tumuli of the island of Bute.  PSAS 38 17-81 ( 42-44 cave at Freeland)

Bevan, P, 1962 The Caves of Bute.  PAS N/L (18) 30-32

Buteshire Natural History Soc Trans 8 1915

Cullingford 1962  329.  Two sites on the isle of Bute revealed no artefacts; excavation at Freeland on the Isle of Great Cumbrae revealed fragments of worked limestone and 2 bone needles.  Waterloo Cave on Little Cumbrae only produced kitchen refuse.

Cunningham, Craig, E H et al 1911 Mem Geol Surv, Scotland.  The Geology of Colonsay and Oronsay.

Haswell-Smith 15 location map.

Hill, Julian 1979 Reading the landscape of Bute through its geology.  WEA West Scotland District.  57, location map.

Hutchinson  1  262, The Lion Rock.  Holes in a trap-dyke.  Photo by Valentine & Sons.

Lacaille  197 Freeland and Waterloo (or Russell) Caves.

Marshall, D, 1939 A survey of the caves of Bute and the Cumbraes. Trans Buteshire Nat His Soc 12 113-115.  Freeland Cave 115-116,; Waterloo Cave NGR NS 141 508 17-118

Statistical Account 1791-99  12 415    Cimbracs, Ayrshire, West Kilbride.  "Island of Little Cumbray.  Island are no fewer than seven caves.  Two of the are very remarkable.  One of them is a square room of 32 feet, so high in the roof, that a person may stand upright, and seems to be the work of art.  The other the largest of the whole, penetrates so far, as never by yet to have explored".  Legendary tales of superstition.

Steers 106  "there are six or more caves on Little Cumbrae, the largest is Monk's Cave...  The others are small but in Waterloo Cave three district layers of shell and bone deposits were found.  Marshall 1939".

 

BYRIPSCOVECAVE                      NGR NT 865 8 7089                      Landranger 67                Eyemouth

 

CAILLICHE PEIREAG, UAMH see ASSYNT, caves of

 

CAILLEACH, UAMH NA see NUNS' CAVE

 

CAILLEACH BHEAG RUAIVAL, UAMH-NA see ST KILDA, Caves of

 

CAIPLIE CAVE                                       NGR NO 5998 0583    Landranger 59                    Crail, Fifeshire

also known as Caplawchy, Caiple Chapel Cave and Hermits Cave and Hermit's Well  [Cailple?]

Anon 1976 What to see in East Fife / Twelve trails for walks or drives.  Standing Council of East Fife Preservation Societies.  No page numbers.

Anon ND [c1984?] Crail Heritage Trail.  [Crail Preservation Society?] 6.

Anon c1986 The Isle of May.  Wemyss Environmental Education Centre. 11

Buchanan 5 death of King Constantine in this cave.

Chapman, Alison, 2002 A String of Pearls / The Coastal Path from St Monans to Crail 38 pp.  Describe St Fillan's Cave and the caves at Crail.  The Crail caves have been lived in for over 2000 years.  In the 9th century St Adrian and his followers carved the many crosses on the wall of Chapel Cave.  Hermits cave was the abode of "Covey Jimmy Gilligan in 1910.  SB £4.95

Dickson, John 1899 Emeralds Chased in Gold; or, The Islands of the Forth: Their Story, Ancient and Modern.  Edinburgh, Oilphant, Anderson & Ferrier.

Eggeling, W J, 1960 [2nd ed was published 1985] The Isle of May / A Scottish Nature Reserve.  Oliver & Boyd, London & Edinburgh.11, 13

Geddie, John 1927 The Fringes of Fife / New and Enlarged Edition, Illus by Arthur Wall and Louis Weirter.  159, 160

Glasgow Herald  4 August 1955

Gentelmans Magazine Part 2 1865

GSG Ser 5 5 (5) March 2001 9-10.

GSS 1 (4)

Fleming, D H, 1886 East Neuk of Fife.  33-35

http://www.rcahms.gov.uk    accessed 14/03/2005

Hutchinson  2  The Caves, Crail.  Photo by Valentine & Sons.

Jackson, Rev John, ND [1946] Official Guide to Crail, revised by J Gordon Dow.  illus  60

Jackson, A, 1984  The symbol stones of Scotland: a social anthropological resolution to the problems of the Picts.  Kirkwall.

Jones, Duncan 1998 A Wee Guide to the Picts.  Edinburgh & Musselburgh, Goblinhead. 49 Caiple Chapel Cave

Keay, Alex 2000 Cove Jimmy.  Scots Mag March (3) 662.  Jimmy Gilligan lived in the cave for 11 years.  B&W postcard illustration.

Lang 1951 16

Millar, A H, 1895 Fife: Pictorial and historical.  Its people, burghs, castles and mansion.  Westwood, Cupar.  2 vols. Vol 1 12-13 illus.

Murray, J E L, 1963 Rock Cut Symbols in Caiplie Caves.  PSAS 94  324-325

RCAHMS 1933  169-170 No 337.

Ritchie J N G, 1985 Pictish symbol stones: a handlist 1985.  Edinburgh 5.

Robertson 163

Simpson, J Y, 1867  British Archaic Sculpturings. 173

Stuart  -- Sculptured Stones of Scotland. ii 89, 139-90

Sutherland, Ian, April 1998  Our Pictish Past / Ian Sutherland traces the history and heritage of the Picts in Fife.  Scots Mag 148 (4) 377-381

Thirkell, Alison 1976 Auld Anster [=Anstruther].  Buckie House Gallery, Anstruther.  4-5 illus.

Thomas, C, 1963  The interpretation of the Pictish symbols.  Arch Jl 120 1963 95.

Wace, A J B, et al 1915 Cave Excavation in East Fife.  PSAS 49 242-224

Watson, Harry D 1986 Kilrenny and Cellardyke / 800 Years of History.  Edinburgh 1896.  10-12 Caiplie Caves, 3 photos.

Wynton, J ND Cronykil of Scotland. b VI C8 [from rcahms]

Yuill 21

 

CAIRD'S CAVE [1]                NGR NH 74 0 580                  Landranger 27          Rosemarkie, Ross-shire

M'Lean, Mrs, 1931 [donation of an archaeological collection from Caird's Cave, Rosemarkie, Ross-shire collected by Dr William M'Lean]  PSAS 65 412

 

CAIRD'S CAVE [2]                          NGR NK 0550 3065 Landranger 30         Collieston, Aberdeenshire

Young, Ivan, 1996  The Lost Cave GSG Ser 3 4 (1) The Lost Cave of Slains 27-30,

 

CAIRN HOLY CHAMBERED CAIRNS                         NGR NX 518 540 & NX 517 538     Landranger                                                 Gatehouse of Fleet

Crae, John 2001 Caves, Cairns, Tunnels, Passages and Pits, Part 2 GSG Ser 4 1 (1) 36

 

CAIRNS HILL, CAVES OF             NGR NT 07 48        Landranger 72                                         Dunsyre

Grant 18 "Th wild glens, recesses, and cave around the Cairn Hills and the Garval Syke, as around Dunsyre, were sheltering places for the persecuted Presbyterians in the Covenant times ..."

 

CAIRN O'GET                                  NGR NH 313 441    Landranger                                               Lybster

Crae, John 2001 Caves, Cairns, Tunnels, Passages and Pits, Part 2 GSG Ser 4 1 (1) 34.  Chambered Cain.

 

CAIRNPAPPLE                                 NGR NS 917 787    Landranger

Crae, John 2001 Caves, Cairns, Tunnels, Passages and Pits, Part 2 GSG Ser 4 1 (1) 36.  Chambered Cairn.

 

CAITLOCHCAVE                            NGR NX 766 5 9199                      Explorer 320 and 328      Moniaive

Marked Caitloch Cave on Explorer 320 and 328.  nb the NGR is the `C' of Caitloch.  Min (dis) and Pit (dis) noted nearby.  Moniaive is a little village lying among the hills in the upper part of the Cairn Valley.  James Rens Renwick, the martyred Covenanter, was born here in 1662.

Hutchinson  1  Caitloch Cave.  Photo by Valentine & Sons.

 

CALCITE CAVE see ASSYNT, Caves of

 

CALAMAN CAVE                            NGR NG 587 159    Landranger 32                                              Skye

 

CALAN, UAMH NAM                     NGR NR 8391 5215        1" OS 65                                        Grogport

 

CALCANAUS CAVE                        NGR NG 612 9 2469                     Landranger 32                         Skye

 

CALLERCOVE POINT CAVE        NGR 932 652           Landranger 67                               St Aub's Head

 

CALMAN, NA UAI                           NGR NC 90 03        Explorer 441                              Brora, Caithness

Pennant 1774  173, 357, 336

Jeffreys, Alan 2001 Richard Pococke's Tours of Scotland-Some Extracts.  GSG Ser 4 1 (1) 12

 

CALMAN, UAMH NAN                  NGR NM 40 5 294                        Landranger 38                         Mull

 

CALUMAN, NAM UAMH see ASSYNT, CAVES of

 

CAMAS NA H-UAMHA                  NGR 253 376           Landranger 23                                              Skye

 

CAMPBELLTOWN COAL MINES

see The Caves of Kintyre and Mid-Argyll by Tony Oldham

 

CAMUSFEARNACAVE                  NGR NG 70 01        Explorer       413                                    Knoydart

Landranger 33.  The real name of Maxwell's Camusfearna is Sandaig; a memorial marks the site of his cottage.  There are several caves mapped on the coast to the north and south of Sandaig.

Joe & Jeannie Wilson lived in this cave as described in Gavin Maxwell's - Ring of Bright Water.

 

CANDLESTICK CAVE              NGR NG 24 8 363            Landranger 23                     Idrigill Point, Skye

MacCulloch 1927a 88-89

 

CANNA CAVE                                        NGR NG 240 055        Landranger 23                       Isle of Canna

Anderson  245

Baxter 526

Ritchie, Graham and Mary Harman  ND Exploring Scotland's Heritage / Argyll and the Western Isles.  Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland.  HMSO, Edinburgh.  158 mentions two short souterrains at NGR NG 244 062

 

CANTIRE (archaic) see KINTYRE, MULL OF

 

CAPTAIN IVY'S CAVE                     NGR NC 842 660            1" OS 10              Strathy Bay, Sutherland

Cordiner, Rev Charles 1760 "Antiquities and Scenery of the North of Scotland. In a Series of Letters to Thomas Pennant Esq. By the Rev. Charles Cordiner of St. Andrews Chapel, Banff. MDCCXXX".

Grindley, D 2001 Captain Ivy's Cave. GSG Ser 4 1 (1) 29-31 S

GSG Ser 4 1 (5) 48-50  Detail account describes how Captain Ivy spent over a year hiding in the cave.  The Laird of Strathy sent his servant Sutherland MacKay daily to the cave with fresh food and victuals.

Temperley, A, 1977 Tales of the North Coast.  Research Publishing Co, reprinted Luath Press 1999.

http://www.mackaycountry.com/start.htm   accessed 14.10.05

 

CAPUILL, UAMH                                   NGR NS 093 523        Explorer 361                              see BUTE

 

CAPULL, UAMH NA                       NGR                         1"                                                                    Jura

RCAHMSS 1984  19

Tolan-Smith  8

 

CARA see GIGHA

 

CARDING MILL BAY CAVES           cNGR NM 846 294        1" OS                            Oban, Argyllshire

Bonsall, C. & Smith, C.  1992  New AMS dates for antler and bone artefacts from Great Britain. Mesolithic Miscellany 13 28-34.

Bonsall, C. & Sutherland, D G  1992  The Oban caves. In Walker, M J C. et al. (eds) The South-West Scottish Highlands. Field Guide. Quaternary Research Association, Cambridge, pp. 115-121.

Bronk Ramsey, C., Pettitt, P B, Hedges, R E M., Hodgins, G W L. & Owen, D C  2000  Radiocarbon dates from the Oxford AMS system: Archaeometry datelist 30. Archaeometry 42: 459-479.

Connock, K D. (1988) Carding Mill Bay (Kilmore and Kilbride parish) shell midden and later inhumation. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 1988: 23.

Connock, K D. 1990  A shell midden at Carding Mill Bay, Oban. Scottish Archaeological Review 7: 74-76.

Connock, K D,  Finlayson, B,  & Mills, C M, 1992 Excavation of a shell midden site at Carding Mill Bay near Oban, Scotland.  Glasgow Arch Jl 17 25-38

Hedges, R E M. 1993  Radiocarbon dates form the Oxford AMS system: Archaeometry datelist 17. Archaeometry 35:           305-326.

Macklin, M G & Rumsby, B T 1991  Geomorphological survey of caves and rockshelters in the Oban District, Scotland. Unpublished report, Historic Scotland, Edinburgh.

Pollard  187, 241, 242, 247, 248, 283

Saville & Hallén  716

Tolan-Smith 6

Wickham-Jones  72, 81

 

CARLINES COVE

aka as Borness Cave.

McTaggart, John 1824  The Gallovididian Encylopedia. London, describes a Covenanter called Dixon who hid in this cave.

 

CARLUNGIE SOUTERRAIN        NGR NO 51 1 359   Landr 54 marked Souterrain    Dundee, Angus

About 7 miles east of Dundee just north of the A 92 road.  Take the B962 turning, northern and a mile, at the cross road, turn east, the souterrain is one mile further on and is marked on the 1" OS map.  Excavated in 1949-51 it is 140 feet long and has a main entrance and three subsidiary ones and eight huts were found on the surface, nearby.  Scheduled Monument 90059.  See also Ardestie Souterrain which is nearby. 

Gibson, Colin  Courier 1983 and Broughty Ferry Guide and Comastie Gazette.

GSG Ser 5 5 (5) March 2001 13.

Mackie 186

Small, Alan and Lisbeth M Thoms ND [1985?] The Picts in Tayside.  Sponsored by the Graham Hunter Foundation.  Dundee[?].  32

 

CARN CAVE                          cNGR NR 68 0 935                      Explorer 355                                        Jura

Mercer  55, 62, 67

RCAHMS 1984 19, 302

 

CARN MHIC T-SRONAICH          NGR NF 881 890    Landranger 18                                           Pabbay

Haswell-Smith 222

 

CAROL'S CRAWL      NGR NO 63 7 709            Landranger        FifeNess

L 4.6 m.  This small sea cave penetrates a large red calciferous sandstone block, and the entrance, although facing inland, appears to be within the limit of high spring tides.  The entrance is 1.1m high by 0.9 m wide, narrowing slightly towards the roof.  The cave is a short natural tunnel, gradually narrowing and lowering over its length until, at 4.6 m long it is only 0.5 m high, 0.6 m wide at the base, and 0.2 m wide at roof level.  First surveyed by C Morrison, April 1982.

Access: Park at Golf Course Fee 30p [2006] and walk south-east along track (Danes' Dyke) to the coast.

Yuill  22

 

CARRA see GIGHA

 

CARSAIG ARCHES                               NGR NM 495 186       Landranger 48                                     Mull

AA  128

Anderson 1863 177

Beautiful Britain 1 129

Campbell, Barbara 1994  Mulling around.  The Countryman 99 (3) 39-44

Haswell-Smith 79

Hutchinson  1  Photo by Valentine & Sons.

Keddie, 27, 130-133, illus 131

MacDonald 14, 38, 55

MacLean  34-36 illus

MacNab 26

MacNab P A 1969 Secrets of Carsaig.  The Scots Magazine. New Series 91 (3) 212-214

Muirhead 354

Mull & Iona 37, 49

Murray 1805 27

W L Oban 92

 

CARSAIG BAY FISSURE CAVE          NGR NR 7353 8811    1" OS 52         Knapdale

Tolan-Smith  2

 

CARSAIG ISLAND CAVE              NGR NR 731 5 8908          1" OS 52                                      Knapdale

Tolan-Smith  22

 

CARSAIG SOUND BOULDER CAVES        NGR NR 735 0 8923    1" OS 52                             Knapdale

Tolan-Smith  22

 

CASTLE SWEEN CAVE                  NGR NR 7122 7883       1" OS 58                                         Knapdale

Campbell & Sandeman 6

RCAHMS 1988 208

Tolan-Smith  9, 17

 

CASTLE SWEEN SOUTH CAVE       NGR NR 712 7 7857    1" OS 58                                         Knapdale

Campbell & Sandeman 6, No 6

Tolan-Smith  21

 

CATERAN'S CAVE                          NGR NO 236 792    Landranger 44                         Cortachy & Clova

Dorward 131, 132

Gibson, Colin 19?? A Highland Refuge.  The Courier

Gibson, Colin, 1977 Highland Deer Stalker.  William Culross & Son Ltd, Coupar Angus, Perthshire.  122-123 [1st edition was published in 1958 by Seely, Service & Co, London.]

 

CAT'S CAVE                                     NGR NO 13 5  226  Landranger 58                                      Perthshire

To the west of Windy Ghoul, in the steep face of Kinnoull Hill.

 

CATHAN-AODAICH, UAMH NAN see WEB CAVE

 

CATHEDRAL CAVE                              NGR NM 473 835       Landranger 39                          Isle of Eigg

Donaldson  257

Lockhart 286 Sir Walter Scott's visit 26 August 1814

MacGregor 1937 177

Murray 138

Parker 46

Redfern, R A, 1973 A mountaineer on Eigg.  Climber and Rambler.  12 (9) 371

Redfern  85

Simpson  102

Snab (Devotion Cave) 102

Statistical Account 1791-99   17 287-288  Uamba Chrabhuidh (the Cave of Devotion) in which Roman Catholics attend mass. 

Sutherland 172

Urquhart, Judy and Ellington, Eric 1987 Eigg.  Canongate Publishing Ltd, Edinburgh.  42 Cathedral Cave and photo.

W L Oban  97

 

CAVE(S) OF  ... look up under Proper noun /Place name.

 

CAVES OF SKYE see Ryder, P.F. 1995. Caves of Skye. Edinburgh, Grampian Speleological Group, Occasional Publication No. 7.

 

CAVE OF THE ARROWS               NGR NG 450 245    Landranger 32                                              Skye

 

CEANN, UAMH-NA-                             NGR NM 477 585       Landranger 47                                     Mull

Gordon 1950 177

Hannan  42

MacDonald  46

 

CHAOL, UAMH see STRATHY CAVES

 

CHLOINNDIRIDM, UAMH see EIGG

 

CHAPEL BAY FISSURE CAVE           NGR NR 7506 7678       1" OS 58                                     Knapdale

Tolan-Smith  21

 

CHAPEL BAY ROCKSHELTER         NGR NR 7500 7677       1" OS 58                                     Knapdale

Log entry 28 No 190304

Tolan-Smith  21

 

CHLUNANAIDH, UAMH see CLUNY'S CAVE

 

CHLOINN IAIN, UAIMH                 NGR NM 5 0 70                  Landranger 47                 Ardnamurchan

aka Cave of the MacIains

Gordon 245-246

 

CHRABHUIDH, UAMBA (THE CAVE OF DEVOTION) see CATHEDRAL CAVE

 

CHRAIDH-AT BAILEGRUNAIL, UAMH-     NGR NM 84 5 395      Landranger 80                   Lismore

Marked on 1" OS map as Uamh nan Cradh.  A story is told of a piper and his dog having entered this cave - Uamb-Chraidh-at Bailegrunail, intending to come out at Uamh-an-duine, which is at Creaganaich.  It is alleged that the piper was heard playing right across the island, the music ascending through earth-holes - talamh-tuill - on the way the burden of his lament being:-

 

Mis air airin baidh 'us burrail

Measg nan glumag eagalaich

Uamh Chraidh am Baile-ghrunail

Uamh-an-Duin' an Creaganaich.

 

I drowning and howling

Amongst the horrid pools

The Pain Cave in Bailegrunail

The Man Cave in Creaganaich.

 

The dog came out at Uamb-an-Duine hairless and sightless, but the playing ceased and the piper never emerged.  The conclusion is that the cave contained impassable pools, in one of which the piper was drowned.

 

Similar stories are told of many other places from Ireland to India and from Britain to Japan, and probably with as much foundation in fact.

 

Carmichael, Alexander LLD. 1909  The Barons Of Bachuill.  The Celtic Review April 15.  356-375

 

CHRISTIE HOLE                                   NGR HU 160 610        1" OS 2                               see Papa Stour

see Papa Stour, Caves of, in Caves of Northern Britain.

 

CHROM, UAIMH                                  NGR NM 821 254       Explorer 359                                       Oban

Gordon 1949 234

 

CHURCH CAVE see RONA

 

CLACH NA EASBUIG                    cNGR NR 861 760   1" OS 58       Loch Fyne, Argyllshire

Campbell & Sandeman 6

Tolan-Smith  9

 

CLACHTOLL SEA CAVE                      NGR NC 039 267        1" OS 13                                    Sutherland

 

CLAIGIONN, UAMH NAN see SKULLS, CAVE OF

 

CLAIGIONN, UAMH NAN                   NGR NM 982 513       Landranger                         Bealach, Appin

see CAVES OF APPIN GUIDE BOOK

Thomason, Alan 1977  Down Under in Appin / Alan Thomson Scotland's deepest pothole.  Scots Mag 108 (1) 12-29, 9 photos.

 

CLAIGIONN, UAMH NAN             NGR: NM 848 294 1" OS                                                            Oban

Ordnance Survey Name Book (1870) 19: 60-61.

Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland(1975) Argyll, an Inventory of the Ancient Monuments, volume 1: Lorn. RCAHMS, Edinburgh.

Saville, A. & Hallén, Y. (1994) The `Obanian Iron Age': human remains from the Oban cave sites, Argyll, Scotland. Antiquity 68: 715-723.

Sinclair, J. ed (1794) The Statistical Account of Scotland Volume 11: 126-127.

 

CLAMSHELL CAVE                              NGR NM 325 353       Landranger 46   Staffa, Argyllshire

Black's 1873 480

Donaldson 389

Murray 1805 42, 170-171, 182.

Shaw 11 Items 47-51

Steers 143

Whittow 251

 

CLAN RANALDS' CAVE see MACDONALDS' CAVE

 

CLAREMONT CAVE         NGR NS 17 3 545    Landranger 63                Millport, Great Cumbrae Island

GSG 3 (1) 6 S

 

CLAONAITE, UAMH AN                NGR                                                                                            Assynt

see CAVES OF ASSYNT BOOK

Ackland, E & C Shepherd 1967 Cave at the Claonaite Sink.  KCC Jl (5) 35

Jeffreys, Alan L, 1979 Uamh an Claonaite.  BC 75 Christmas.  1-5, survey, illus.

Stephen, Kenneth 2006 Underground Treasures.   Scots Mag 165 (5) 466-8

 

CLATTO CAVE                                NGR NO 358 072    1" OS 56                                     Cupar, Fifeshire

Statistical Account 1791-99  1 382,  Kettle, Fife, Kings Kettle.  On the old road from Cupar to Kinghorne.  The grounds of Clatto Den are still deserted.  In the face of the brae is a cave, said to communicate with the old castle of Cupar.  Used by robbers, but the cave has now been obliterated.

 

CLAVA CAIRNS                              NGR NH 752 439-NH 760 445    Landranger                      Inverness

Crae, John 2001 Caves, Cairns, Tunnels, Passages and Pits, Part 2 GSG Ser 4 1 (1) 36.  Chambered cairns.

 

CLEAVES COVE CAVE                        NGR NS 317 474        Landranger 63   Dalry, Ayrshire

BC 12 73; 30 109-110; 32 80-92

Birchley, S L 1943 Cleave's Cove. BC 10 64-65S

Cullingford 1962 148

Forsyth's 1805 Beauties of Scotland

Gieke  Prehistoric Man in Scotland

Glas SS  1 (1); 1 (4) 65 S.  Glas SS N/L July 1967

Jones 10

Kempe 1988 196

Knibbs A J 1955 Dusk Valley, Ayrshire.  Personal Diary, 1 51 S MSS

New Statistical Account, Ayrshire, Dalry Parish.  211, 287-305

Pont, Timothy,  1604-1608  Cunninghame Topographized

Robertson, George, 1820  Topographical Description of Ayrshire

Smith, J 1889 Cleaves Cove, Dalry, Ayrshire.  Archaeological and Historical Collections relating to Ayrshire & Galloway.  6 1-16, 3 plates inc S.  [condensed from Trans Geol Soc Glasgow 1885, 7 part 2, ref BC 10 65]

Smith, J 1894 Monograph of the Stalactites and Stalagmites of the Cleave Cove, near Dalry, Ayrshire.  34 pp 36 plates.  Elliot Stock, London

Smith, J, 1895 Prehistoric Man in Ayrshire  $89.11 3/12/03  .  248, 281 figs.   Cleeves Cove 62-68 illus.

Statistical Account 1791-99  12 105 to 108.  A good description, but cave is not named.

Statistical Account 1845 5 211  A good description, but cave is not named.

 

CLONEFARMCAVE                      NGR                         Landranger Port William

Smith, Gavin D 2003 The Scottish Smuggler  74 Breddock Cave in Clanyard Bay, west coat of the Rhinns,just south of Port Logan.  Smugglers' caves in Mull Heads.

 

CLUNY'S CAVE or CAGE                NGR NN 675 961        Landranger 35             Ben Alder, Perthshire

Barnett  119

BC 14 78 reprinted from Statistical of Scotland by Sir John Sinclair

Brown, Dave and Mitchell, Ian 1987 Mountain Days and Bothy Nights.  Luath Press Ltd, Barr, Ayrshire.  54-55 Clunie's Cage

Drummond, Robert, J, 1947 All Around Scotland.  Edinburgh, London.  The Ettrick Press, Ltd. 75 Cluny Macpherson's Cave.

Eyre-Todd  202

Forster, Margaret  1973  The Rash Adventurer.  The Rise and Fall of Charles Edward Stuart.  331, illus, map.  Sekar and Warburg, London.  176 Cluny's Cage

Gordon 1948 162-163 reprinted BC 29 6 suggest that the `Cage' was a two storey shanty, made of wood. 216-220 a small cave and not easy to find.

Gray, Affleck 1987 Legends of the Cairngorms. Edinburgh, Mainstream Publishing.  43- 47 Clun's Cave,  48- 54 Cluny's Cage

Linklater 120-122

Mais  45

McLaren  164 refers to `Cluny's Cage´ where Bonnie Prince Charlie hid for a time with Cluny Macpherson

Motoring 191

Murray 1968 238

Shaw 14 Item 65

Trainer, David 2005 March.  Cluny Macpherson's Cage.  Scots Mag 162 (3) 253-256 illus.  Gives the correct location.

 

CNOC MOINE BOULDER CAVE       NGR NR 711 0 7335     1" OS 58                                     Knapdale

Tolan-Smith  21

 

COBBLER'S CAVE      NGR NN 262 059   Landranger 56     Ramshead Ridge, Ben Arthur, Argyllshire

BC 32 44; 33 pt 1 26-27

Cooper, R G 1983 Mass Movement Caves in Great Britain.  Studies in Speleology 4 40

Glas SS 1 (1); 1 (4)

Scottish Mountaineering Club Jl 22 (130) Nov 1940

 

COCKBURN'S CAVE                      NGRNT205 675    Landranger 66                                         Colinton

A cave in the hills above Torduff Reservoir.

Grant 177

 

COIRE MULROONEY, CAVES OF see CAVES OF APPIN GUIDE BOOK

 

COIRE SHEILEACH, UAMH               NGR NN 030 496        Landranger                        Sheilach, Appin

see CAVES OF APPIN GUIDE BOOK

Thomason, Alan 1977  Down Under in Appin / Alan Thomson Scotland's deepest pothole.  Scots Mag 108 (1) 12-29, 9 photos.

 

COLLY CAMB'S CAVE                  NGR                         Landranger                                         Blackwater

Colly Camb was a giant who lived in a cave on the south slope of Mount Blair.  Colly had a giant wife, her name was Smoutachanty and her cave was further up the Isla at Auchintaple.  Cooly was stoned to death for robbing a corn mill.  Nobody went near the cave for years, then two brave men ventured in to explore it.  A while later someone heard their voices from underground near the Alrick Burn almost two miles away.  The two men were never seen again.

Fleming, Maurice, 1995 The Ghost o'Mause and other tales and traditions of East Perthshire. With a forward by Sir William Macphersson of Cluny.  Edinburgh, The Mercat Press.  21-22

 

COLDBACKIESSEACAVES      cNGR NC 610 605        Explorer 447                               Kyle of Tongue

Steers 59

 

COLM'S HOLE                                NGR NT 659 993    Landranger 59                                   Isle of May

 

COLONEL'S CAVE                                NGR NO 087 887        Landranger 43                                Inverey

Eyre-Todd 207

 

COLONEL NAIRNE'S GROTTO         NGR NO 5 1x 16x        1" OS 56                 St Andrew's, Fifeshire

aka Queen Mary's Grotto and St Leonard's Grotto.  It may have been a surface-built summer house rather than an underground feature.  Personal communication, Colin McLeod July 2005.

Anon 2003 A sense of place- discovering St Andrews.  St Andrews Preservation Trust leaflet for St Andrews Week describes St Leonard's Grotto in the grounds of St Leonard's School.

Fleming, D Hay 1924 [one of many]  Handbook to St Andrews.  J & G Innes, St Andrews.  52

Delaney  85  In Queen Mary House, St Andrews

Rogers 28, 30

 

*COLONSAY, CAVES OF                     NGR NR 370 940        Landranger 61                          Argyllshire

There are at least 4 islands in Scotland called Colonsay.  Expect some confusion.

Donaldson, M, 1926  Further Wanderings, Mainly in Argyll.  reprinted BC 32 26-27

Glass SS Jl 1 (4)

Gordon 1949 301

Gordon 1950  192-193

Grieve, Symington 1880 Preliminary note on the discovery of a bone cave at the Island of Colonsay.  PSAS 14  318-324  [Crystal Spring Cave]

Grieve, S 1883 On the Crystal Spring Cavern, Colonsay.  (second communication) PSAS NS 5 365

Haswell-Smith 46 Uamh Uir (gaelic - The Cave of Gravedust); 47 Piper's Cave

Jardine, D C, J Clarke, P M Clarke 1986 The Birds of Colonsay and Oransay / Their History and Distribution.  41 Rock Dove in Piper's Cave and other caves. [ref Murray, F 1887 Summer in the Hebrides, Glasgow]

Kempe 407

MacGregor, A A, 1952 Skye and the Inner Hebrides reprinted BC 29 5

Murky  43

PSAS 14 381; 15 140; 17 351, 363

RCAHMS 1984  18-19

Steers 146, 155  Oronsay.  There are four caves at Port Eaasdail, eight more are listed in the Memoir.

Stevenson, William, communicated by Dr Arthur Mitchell. 1881 Notes on the Antiquities of the islands of Colonsay and Oransay.  PSAS 15 (181) 113-147.  New Cave [Crystal Spring Cavern] 140-141.  Bonnie Cave 141.

 

CONDYLE CAVE                             NGR NG 617 4 2430                     Landranger 32                         Skye

 

CONSTANTINE'S CAVE      NGR NO 633 101   Landranger 59       under Craighead Farm, St Andrews

Anon 1976 What to see in East Fife / Twelve trails for walks or drives.  Standing Council of East Fife Preservation Societies.  No page numbers.

Anon 1981 Fife Coastal Walk / Walk No 5 Kingsbarns to Crail.  Wemyss Environmental Education Centre.  no page nos, Walk No 5

Anon ND [c1984?] Crail Heritage Trail.  [Crail Preservation Society?] 6.

Bayley  780

Childe, V Gordon, 1935 The Prehistory of Scotland.  Kegan Paul Trubner, London.  226

Cullingford 1962  301

Geddie, John 1927 The Fringes of Fife / New and Enlarged Edition, Illus by Arthur Wall and Louis Weirter.  172-173

Glasgow Herald 4 August 1955

GSG Ser 5 5 (5) March 2001 10.

Irish Naturalists' Jl 7 (4) Dec 1938  109

Hunter, Fraser,  1996 Recent Roman Iron Age metalwork from Fife and Tayside. Tayside and Fife Arch Jl 2

Jackson 109

Jackson, J, ND [1946] Official Guide to Crail revised by J Gordon Dow  55

Jones  36

Lang 1951 51

Lübke  36

PSAS 3 208; 49 241

Ritchie, James, 1918  Cave Hunting in Scotland.  Scottish Naturalist 77  97-102

Robertson 162

Wace, A J B, et al 1915 Cave Excavation in East Fife.  PSAS 49 233-255

Yuill  22

 

CORMAC'S CAVE see FEAR, UAMH NA

 

CORMORANTS' CAVE                        NGR NM 324 352       Landranger 46   Staffa, Argyllshire

Adams, W H D, Beneath the Surface reprinted BC 32 21

Black's 1873 480

Lockhart  287

MacCulloch 1927b  27-28

MacCulloch 1934  64

MacNab  218

Muirhead  351

Murray  108

Shaw 12 Items 54 to 57

 

CORPACH CAVES                           cNGR NR 57091 5   Explorer 355                                                  Jura

Martin c1695  269

RCAHMS 1984  19, 332, 450

Statistical Account

Tolan-Smith  8

 

CORR EILEAN CAVE               cNGR NR 675 7561" OS 58                            Corr Eilean, Sound of Jura

Campbell & Sandeman 7, No 8

Tolan-Smith  10

 

CORRIE CAVES                                    NGR NS 024 437        1" OS 66            Corrie, Arran

Anon ND Isle of Arran, Official Guide.  64.  Caves 34,36

Downie  60

Glas SS Jl 1 (1); 1 (4) 36

GSG 3 (3) 8

Hanley, Cliff ND [1950?] Arran, A Tourist's Guide Book.  36, illus.  John Menzies and Co, Glasgow.  25

McLellan  155, 176

NCMRS Mem 1968  75

 

CORRIEDOE CAVE see PRINCE CHARLIE'S CAVE [6]

 

CORRIES CAVE                     NGR NH 406 104        Landranger 34              Loch Ness, Inverness-shire

 

CORRIE CAVES                              NGR NS 024 437    Explorer 361                                                  Jura

 

COUPAR ANGUS TUNNELS         NGR NO 223 5 3975                     Landranger 53         Coupar Angus

Tradition has it that a tunnel under Coupar Angus Abbey goes all the way to the ruined castle at Pitcur.

Fleming, Maurice, 1995 The Ghost o'Mause and other tales and traditions of East Perthshire. With a forward by Sir William Macphersson of Cluny.  Edinburgh, The Mercat Press.  19-20

 

COURT CAVE                                  NGR NT 343 969    Landranger 59               East Wemyss, Fifeshire

See also East Wemyss, Caves of

Buckley et al 1974

Kempe 408

Scot Moncrieff, M C, 1985 The Court Cave / A Scottish Tale of the Sixteenth Century.  Albyn Press, Edinburgh. 

Spel 1 (2) 33

Sutherland, E 1994 In search of the Picts.  Constable, London.  231

 

COVE CAVE [1]                                NGR NG 816 895.  Landranger 19                      Cove, Wester Ross

References:

Barnett, T Radcliffe, 1946, Cove, 145

Chadwick, Steve 1992 Poolewe to Gruinard, Selected Walks and Caves with Historical Narrative. p 1

Grindley, Anne and Dick. 2002  Meet Report, Cove Cave, Cove Wester Ross.  GSG 4th Ser 1  (3) 30 

Jermy, A Clive 1994 The Distribution of Gametophyte of the Killarney Bristle-Fern Trichomanes speciosum  in North-West Scotland with notes on its Ecology.  Prepared for Ro Scott, Scottish Natural Heritage.

Shaw, Donald 2002 100 Years in Wester Ross 1900-2000 p15. 

Rough Guide to Scottish Highlands and Islands p 264.

 

COVE, CAVES OF [2]       NGR NT 783 718  1" Landranger 67         near Cockburnspath, Berwickshire

Baxter 525

Drummond, Robert, J, 1947 All Around Scotland.  Edinburgh, London.  The Ettrick Press, Ltd.  21-22

Geikie 50

GSG 2 (5) 2

Kempe 407

Weir, Tom, Nov 1978 On Top of the Bass.  Scots Mag 110 (2) 177-183

 

COVE, CAVES OF [3]       NGR NT 784 718  Landranger 67 near Cockburnspath, Berwickshire

GSG 2 (5) 2

 

COVE, CAVES OF [4]       NGR NT 788 716  Landranger 67 near Cockburnspath, Berwickshire

Anon  ND Views of Dunbar and Vicinity.  no publisher.  illus of Cave harbour and cave.

Geikie 51

 

COVENANTER'S CAVE        NGR NO 41 7 148        Landranger                                                Dura Den

This cave is situated in the picturesque Dura Den, once famous for its fossil fish beds which were extensively quarried by British Museum expeditions.  Just south of the telephone box, the cliffs east of the road are formed from thick beds of yellow or creamy soft sandstones of the Upper Old Red Sandstone age.  The cave can be seen below a prominent pine tree, approximately 15 m above the road, opposite the former Yoolfield Mill.  It is most easily approached from above, and then can be entered by traversing a narrow ledge from the south.  The cave consists of a simple chamber. It is thought to have been a refuge or hide during covenanting times.

Yuill 22  [same as Covenanter's Cave [2]?

 

COVENANTERS' CAVE [1]       NGR NS 7798 6436      Landranger 64        Airdrie, North Calder Water

Correspondence with Monklands Heritage Society.

Statistical Account 1791-99   7 280 described as artificial

Statistical Account 1791-99  16 325  Three miles higher on the north bank of the Calder, in the middle of the steep rock upon which the house of Clelands stands, is a large natural cave, which has been improved by art, capable of holding 40 to 50 men, of difficult access.  The entry was secured by a door and an iron gate, fixed in the solid rock: the fore-place and part of the chimney and floor still remain.  The tradition is, that it had been used as a place of concealment in the troublesome times of the country as far back as Sir William Wallace; perhaps the hero himself, and his trusty band.  Also during violent feuds between the house of Cleland and Lauchope: especially in the convolutions of the country under Charlie's

Statistical Account 1845 6 784

Knox, John  ND Airdrie a Historical Sketch p 12

 

COVENANTERS' CAVE [2]            NGR NO 42 5 160                  Landranger 59       Kemback, Fifeshire

Statistical Account 1845 9 721

 

COVENANTERS' CAVE [3]            NGR NS 715 795                   Landranger 64     Kilsyth, Stirlingshire

Nimmo, William,  1880 The History of Stirlingshire. Third edition, revised, enlarged, and brought down to the present time, in two volumes. Hamilton, Adams & Co, London & Thomas D. Morrison, Glasgow

 

COVENANTERS' CAVE [4]             NGR NX 94 5 913                 Explorer 321                    Dumfriesshire

Sampson, The late Rev Robert of Sanquar, DD,  ND Traditions of the Covenanters or Gleaning among the Mountains. 

Wilson's Tales of the Border, Gleanings of the Covenant,  No 12 The Cairny Cave at Gavin Muir

 

COVENANTERS' CAVE [5]             NGR NT 374 593                Landranger 66             Currie Wood, Midlothian

 

COVENANTERS' CAVE [6]            NGR NS 51 28        Explorer 327                                         Mauchline

Mororing 66

 

COVE BAY SEA CAVES                  NGR NJ 956 0 0035           Landranger 38                             Aberdeen

South of Aberdeen, noted for type site of Dickie's bladder-fern

BSBI News [n/l of the Botanical Society of the British Isles] (101) January 2006 55.

Green, I P 2006 Filed meeting reports: Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire (v c 91-93) 9-10th July 2005

Marren, Peter, 1984 The History of Dickies Fern in Kincardineshire.  Trans Bot Soc Edinburgh 44 157-164

Marren, Peter, 1984 The History of Dickies Fern in Kincardineshire.  Pteridologist 1 27-32

PSAS 10 630

Page, Christopher N, 1988 Ferns / Their Habitats in the British and Irish Landscapes.  The New Naturalist Series No 74.  Collins, London.  100, 101-102  More on Dickie's bladder-fern in the sea caves of Kincardineshire.

Wiggington, M J 1999 British Red Data Books 1 Vascular plants.  Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough.  Cystopteris dickieana  Dickie's bladder-fern in the sea caves of Kincardineshire.

 

COVES, THE                                     NGR NO 599 058    Landranger 59                                    St Andrews

A series of sea-excavated rock arches.  The larger cave contains incised crosses high up on the east side and several slots and ledges witness to human habitation, perhaps over several thousand years.

Solver, Section 11

 

COVESEA CAVES                                  NGR NJ 180 710         1" OS 29                                  Morayshire

Statistical Account 1791-99   21 208  Extensive sea caves of the coast, also an abundance of freestone quarries.  And in these rocks are some very extensive grand caverns, reaching underground farther than can be searched: some 100 yards, others more, in breaths, and from 60 to 100 yards in height; others smaller, frequently scooped out by the sea.

Black's 1873 391

Jones, Duncan 1998 A Wee Guide to the Picts.  Edinburgh & Musselburgh, Goblinhead.  51

Quarrell, W H, 1907 Covesea Caves Notes and Queries s/o viii 368 [available on the net, $16/day]

Ward Lock ND [c 1950] 7th ed. Guide to Inverness, Strathpeffer, Nairn, Forres, Elgin and Northern Scotland. 90

 

COWSHAVEN CAVE                             NGR NJ 913 662         Landranger 30       Rosehearty, Aberdeen

AA  243

Muirhead 391

Scots Mag 1980 May 173

Statistical Account 1791-99  12 577  Caves in Pistil parish called Cow-haven, which runs up through the country - nobody knows how far.  There are two in the bay of Aberdour, near the church, through which the tide shows.  the end of the this cave is dry at low water, covered with fine sand and affords a pleasant retreat in a warm summer's day.  It is 90 feet long, 22 feet broad and 11 feet high.  The other cave is 42 feet long and never quite dry at low water.  It is 100 feet long, 24 feet broad and 13 feet high.

Statistical Account 1845  12 259 Lord Pitsligo hid here after the battle of Culloden.

 

CRAIGEND CAVE see WALLACE'S CAVE

 

CRAIGHALL CAVE                         NGR                         Landranger                                         Blairgowrie

Birlinn 1998  769 Craighall Cave, two miles north of Blairgowrie

 

CRAIGIEHOWE CAVE          NGR NH 685 523        1" OS 28                     Munlochy, Ross & Cromarty

see also Feinns, Cave of the

Anon ND [c1986] Walks in the Black Isle. Ross and Cromarty Tourist Board.  Brochure.

Marshal;, Elizabeth 1973 [revised ed pub 1986]  The Black Isle a portrait of the past.  42-43

Statistical Account 1791-99  12 274-5.  Kilmuir.  "There is a large cove in this parish, at a place called Craig-a-chow (name given to it for its famous echo) at the entrance to the bay of Munlochy, it is very large and reaches far into the rock, so far indeed that the farmers of the district we obliged to shut it up towards the hill with rubbish; for, when their sheep and goats strayed into it, they were never seen or heard of again.  The mouth of was made up with stone and lime several years ago by traders who secured and secreted goods in it; but since that contraband has been abolished on this coast, the mason work is fallen into decay.  The cave could easily contain, I an told, a whole ship's cargo".  Goes onto explain the medicinally properties of water from this cave which will cure earache. 

Ward Lock ND [c 1950] 7th ed. Guide to Inverness, Strathpeffer, Nairn, Forres, Elgin and Northern Scotland. 123

Willis, Douglas P, 1989 Discovering The Black Isle.  John Donald Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh.  154, 156.

 

CRAG [CRAIG] OF THE CAVES   NGR NM 822 175   1" OS 52                                           Oban, Argyll

Coles, J M, 1984 Excavations at Kilmelfort Cave, Argyll.  PSAS 113 1983 (1984) 11-21 5 illus 1 table.

 

CRAIG AN STAIC ROCKSHELTER      NGR NR 767 0 7785            1" OS 58                          Knapdale

Tolan-Smith  18

 

CRAIGMILLAR CASTLE TUNNEL   NGR NT 283 705-NT 291 710 Landranger                   Edinburgh

Crae, John 2001 Caves, Cairns, Tunnels, Passages and Pits, Part 2 GSG Ser 4 1 (1) 32

 

CRAIG RUADH CAVE                    NGR NH                  Landranger                                       Tarbat Ness

May & Hanson  Tarbat Ness, Ross and Cromarty 90-94, map, photo.  Map shows the location of the cave.

 

CRAILING CAVES                            NGR NT 686 239        Landranger 74         Crailing, Roxburghshire

Berwick NHJ 1861 316 illus. not seen

Lang 126

 

CRAWLEY TUNNEL                       NGR 260 725-NT 265 738            Landranger                     Edinburgh

Crae, John 2001 Caves, Cairns, Tunnels, Passages and Pits, Part 2 GSG Ser 4 1 (1) 32

 

CRAWTON SEA CAVES                 NGR NO 87 79        Landranger 45                                 Crawton Bay

 

CREAN AN EIG, CAVE OF            cNGR NM 908 372 1" OS 52                                   Oban, Argyllshire

About 8 km north of Oban, a small cave at the foot of the crag.

RCAHMS 1975  12

 

CREANUN'S CAVE see GARTNAGERACH CAVES

 

CREAGAN AIRIGHE ROCK SHELTER       NGR NR 795 5 8208     1" OS 58                          Knapdale

Tolan-Smith  21

 

CREAG A'CHATHALAN CAVE    NGR                         Landranger                                      Coire Dheirg

Gray, Affleck 1987 Legends of the Cairngorms. Edinburgh, Mainstream Publishing.  55 Creag a'Chathalan Cave, in Coire Dheirg (Corryarrick), named after one of Cluny's daughters who sheltered there in a snow storm.

 

CREAG AN EIG, CAVE OF            cNGR NM 908 372 1" OS 52       Oban, Argyllshire

RCAHMS 1975  12

Tolan-Smith  6

 

CREAG MHOR ROCK SHELTER         NGR NR 7700 9410     1" OS 52                                  Knapdale

Tolan-Smith  20 No 123 KL

 

CREAG NAN UAHM BONE CAVE see ASSYNT, CAVES OF for 150 references

Callendar, J G, Cree, J E, & Richie, J 1927 Preliminary report on caves containing Palaeolithic relics, near Inchnadamph, Sutherland. PSAS 61 169-172

Cree, J E 1927 Palaeolithic man in Scotland.  Antiquity 1 218-221

Darling, F Fraser and J Morton Boyd 1969 The Highlands and Islands.  37, 75.

Delair, J B 1969 North of the Hippopotamus Belt:  A Brief Review of Scottish Fossil Mammals.  The Mammal Society Bulletin (31) 16-21, map.

Lambert, Robert, A, 1998  Species History in Scotland.  Scottish Cultural Press, Edinburgh.

Lawson, T J 1981 The 1926-7 excavations of the Creag nan Uamh bone cave, near Inchnadamph, Sutherland.  PSAS 111 7-20

Lawson, T J 1993 Creag nan Uamh.[in] Quaternary of Scotland, edited by J E Gordon and D G Sutherland.  Joint Nature Conservation Committee / Chapman & Hall.  127-133

Murray 1968 334-335

Murray, NA; Bonsall, C; Sutherland, D G; Lawson, T J; and Kitchener, AC, 1993 Further Radiocarbon determinations on reindeer remains of Middle and Late Devensian Age from the Creag nan Uamh Caves, Assynt, NW Scotland.  Quaternary N/L (70) June 1-10, location map.

Simpson 1968 36

 

CREANUN'S see GARTNAGERACH CAVES

 

CREICHE, UAMH NA                     NGR NR 708 659         1" OS 58                                           Knapdale

[=The Cave of Plunder].

Campbell & Sandeman 8, No 33

RCAHMS1988  209

Tolan-Smith  9

 

CRICHTON MAINS SOUTERRAIN   NGR NT 400 619  Landr 66 marked Souterrain    Midlothian

This souterrain is unusual because the masonry of which it is built incorporates dressed blocks  that have apparently been taken from a Roman building.  Some of these blocks cab be seen in the upper courses, on the right-hand side of the passage.  In addition to these dressed blocks, one of the lintels of the souterrain has a small carving of a Pegasus.  The winged horse, Pegasus was the emblem of one of the Roman Legions: the Legio II Augusta.  This also helps date the building of the souterrain to some time in the Antonine period in the second century AD.  The souterrain is entered via a 'creep` that leads to a curving passage 15 m long and 2 m wide.  It was re-roofed in the 19th century. 

GSG Ser 3 5 (5) 14

Wickham-Jones, C R 2001 The Landscape of Scotland / A Hidden History  Tempus, Stroud.  69

 

CRINAN FERRY ROCKSHELTER      NGR NR 79 5 936   1" OS 52                  Crinan Bay, Argyllshire

Butter, Rachel 1999 Kilmartin Scotland's richest prehistoric landscape / An Introduction and Guide.  Kilmartin House Trust.

Campbell & Sandeman 7, No 18

PSAS 15 103

RCAHMS1988 3, 10, 21, 208

Tolan-Smith  9

 

CRIPPLE'S CANYON see ASSYNT, CAVES OF

 

CROMARTY SUTORS, CAVES OF     NGR NH 80 5 674        Explorer 432      Cromarty

Baxter 525

Brown, P Hume 1893 Scotland before 1700 from contemporary documents  368  David Douglas, Edinburgh  76, 145

Bond, Miss, ND Letters of a Village Governess, illus

Kempe 407 Doocot or Pigeon (sometimes Dowcate ) Cave.  150 feet long along a fault line and accessible only by boat - and then with some effort.  It has the remains of a wall built by some entrepreneur to guard for himself the - probably wild - birds.

Marshal;, Elizabeth 1973 [revised ed pub 1986]  The Black Isle a portrait of the past.  42-43

Miller 1835 48 Cave at Sutors, 69 Morial's Den, 81-82 Witch's Hole, 172-127 cave, 202 Smugglers Cave, 280, 283, 314-324, Dropping Cave, 325 Fiddlers Well.

Miller, Hugh 1877 The Old Red Sandstone... 385 & 16, illus.  William P Nimmo, London.  Cave 131 footnote.

Miller, Hugh 1891 My Schools and Schoolmasters or the Story of my Education.  562.  William P Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, Edinburgh.  71-84

Muirhead 1947 395 Eathie Burn Caves, best seen from the sea.

Pennant 1774  183-4  Sutters of Cromartie

Scots Mag 97 (6) Sept 1972 590-592.Dropping Cave and MacFarquhar.

Southey  121

St John, Charles 1980 [reprint, 1st ed 1919] Wild Sport & Natural History of the Highlands.  James Thin, The Mercat Press, Edinburgh.  196-198

St John, Charles 1982 A Scottish Naturalist / The Sketches and Notes of Charles St John 1809-1856.  [compiled from the 3 published books by St John + unpublished illustrations].  Andre Deutsch, London.  107-109

Statistical Account 1791-99   12 246  "Cromarty      Ross and Cromarty, Cromarty.  A large rock arch - M'Farquhar's Bed, natural arch which allows the sea to pass in and out.  Nearby is a cave close by the sea, with a man-sized entrance.  Inside there are numerous stalactites.  "The cave is quite accessible and is truly a curious phenomenon".

Willis, Douglas P, 1989 Discovering The Black Isle.  John Donald Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh.  153,

 

CRÒCAN CAVE see LOCH BRITTLE SEA CAVES

 

CRUACH NAN DOIR CHOILLTEAN ROCKSHELTER       NGR NR 761 3 7865  1" OS 58  Knapdale

 

CRUGGLETON CLIFFS CAVES    NGR NX 486 436    Explorer 311                                        Garlieston

from a postcard on Ebay 9¼ miles se of Wigtown

 

CRUCIFIXION CAVE    NGR NR 76 2 200  1" OS 65               Isle of Davaar, Campbeltown, Argyllshire

AA  126

Atkinson 1985 122, 123

Beautiful Britain 1 121, illus

Bede 1861 1 67

The Bulletin [a Glasgow newspaper] 11/4/56  8

Campbeltown Courier 20 Aug, 3 Sept, 10 Sept 1887; 19 May 1934

Campbeltown Guide ND [1971] Mearns Publications, Aberdeen.  27

Carmichael  129, 153

Carmichael, Alasdair Nov 1970 Through the Gap - then down, down, down to the lighthouse.  Scots Mag 94 (2) 130-140, illus.

GSG 4 (1) 29; 4 (2) 13

Haswell-Smith 2

Haynes, James P 2000  Davaar Island, Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland.  25, illus.  pub privately by the author, Mold, Flintshire

Hutcheson, Archie S 1900 May  Rock Art Scots Mag (111) (2) 

Hutchinson Vol 1  Picture Cave, Davaar.  Photo by Valentine & Sons.

Innes, Agnes W S 1954  Campbeltown - That's only half the story.  Scots Mag 62 (1) 1-6 October.

Lawson, Tim 2003 Some Caves of Kintyre.  GSG  Ser 4 1 5  Oct 21-28 S

The Listener  26th April 1956

MacGregor  48-49, illus & opp 64.  Reprinted BC 23 55

Martin 1984 193

Martin, Angus 1994 Sixteen walks in South Kintyre.  pub Kintyre Civic Society  13-15

Muirhead  156

Murray 1968 109

News Chronicle  18 Oct 1933

Newton  13, 49-50, illus.

Scots Mag  1970 Nov 135

Shand, Willie 2003 Kintyre: Almost an Island.  Scots Mag Aug 136-139, colour photo.

Shell Guide to Scotland  124 reprinted BC 54 9

Smith, W, 1835 Views of Campbelton and Neighbourhood

Statistical Account 1845 7 454

 

CULSH SOUTERRAIN                    NGR 504 054           Landranger Tarland, Aberdeen

Seven km north of Aboyne, on B 9199 (torch at farm).  The souterrain is curved in plan, 14.3 m long and 1.8 m wide.  There is a cup-mark near the base of the north wall.

GSG Ser 3 5 (5) 14

Shepherd, Ian 2nd ed 1996 [1st ed was 1986] Aberdeen and North-East Scotland.  HMSO, Edinburgh.  140.

 

CRUSIE, THE see under ARBROATH

 

CULROSS SUBTERREAN PASSAGES                          NGR             Landranger                         Culross

A blind piper and his dog enters these tunnels and only the dog returns.

Cook, Helen 1983 A Haunting of Ghosts and an Unsolved Mystery of St Andrews.  Dundee, David Winter & Sons Ltd.  76

 

CURVED CAVE see CHROM, UAIMH

 

CRYSTAL SPRING CAVERN              NGR NR 390 980        Landranger 61                 Isle of Colonsay

Grieve, S, 1880 Preliminary note on the discovery of a bone at the island of Colonsay, PSAS NS 2 318-324

Grieve, S, 1884 On the Crystal Spring Cave. (second comm). PSAS NS 5 351-364

Jones  5

Knight, Rev G A F, 1913 Archaeological notes from Perthshire and Argyllshire.  Trans Perth Nat Sci.  157-158

Murray  7

Parker  44

 

CULLEN CAVE                                NGR NJ 54 677       Landranger 29                                  Moray Firth

This is a little crevice in the rock, too small to be called a cave, but Charlie Marioni, a deserter from the French navy, lived here for 13 year after World War one. 

Millar, T A 2000 Visiting Cullen's Caveman.  Scots Magazine 152 (6) 661.  Reader's letter following a visit with B&W photo.

Saunders, Andrew, 2000 The Cullen Caveman.  Scots Mag 152 (3) March 316-317, photo.

 

CULZEAN CASTLE CAVES        NGR NS 23 3 103    1" OS 72 Culzean Country Park, Ayrshire

Anon 2005 2000 year old find at Culzean. Scotland in Trust 22 (3) 10 Autumn/Winter.

AA  139

Atkinson 90  Culzean, pron Cullane

Beautiful Britain 1 154

BC 8 5-6 (from Maclagan, C, 1875 The Hill Forts, Stone Circles etc).  BC 14 78

Dick  391-392

Glas SS 1 (4) 56-7, S 67; N/L Oct 1966; Dec 1966; Feb 1967; April 1967; July 1967; Oct 1967; Jan 1968; May 1968

Jones  6

Muirhead 1947 173

Paterson's Ayrshire 2 269

Shell Guide to Britain  152 reprinted BC 54 9

 

CUMBRAE, LITTLE AND GREAT ISLAND OF see BUTE, CAVES OF THE ISLAND OF

 

CUNDY MOLE CAVE           NGR NN 5192 2661    Landranger 51                  Creag Ghlas, Stirlingshire

Salvona, Jim 2005 Cundy Mole Hole.  GSG Ser 4 2 (4) 41-42 S

 

CUNNDAL CAVE               NGR NB 51 2 657           Landranger 8            Bute of Lewis, Outer Hebrides

MacGregor 1937 184, 193

 

DALKEITH CAVES                         NGR NT 336 680    Landranger 66                        south of Edinburgh

Anon ND [1970s] Dalkeith Park / Nature Trails / Guide book

 

DALRY'S HOLE see CLEAVE COVE

 

DARK CAVE                                           NGR NO 673 428        Landranger 54                 Arbroath, Angus

 

DAOINE, UAMH NAN, see RAASAY, CAVES OF

 

DASHER'S DEN                                     NGR NX 000 537        1" OS 79                                   Portpatrick

Statistical Account 1791-99 1 27

 

DAVAAR ISLAND CAVES see CRUCIFIXION CAVE

see Caves of Kintyre

Steers 94

Whitehead, G Kenneth 1972 The Wild Goats of Great Britain and Ireland. David & Charles, Newton Abbot. 116

 

DEIL'S [colloquial] = DEVIL'S CAVE see KINCRAIG CAVES

 

DEVIL'S DINING ROOM  O'Brian 38

 

DEVOTION CAVE see CATHEDRAL CAVE

 

DHONN, UAMH          NGR 7510 6575        Explorer 448                                    Kirtomy Point, Sutherland

Pennant 1774 326

 

DHUBH, UAMH                      vcNGR NR 776 768         1" OS 58                          Achahoish, Argyllshire

Campbell & Sandeman 8, No 31

Tolan-Smith   9

 

DIAMOND CAVE   Mull of Galloway

BC 36 58

 

DICKMONT'S DEN CAVE                   NGR NO 660 417        Landranger 54                 Arbroath, Angus

Anon ND [1950] Guide to Arbroath and its Abbey.  36 pp J F Hood & Son, Arbroath.  23

Fraser, Duncan 1971  The Smugglers.  236, illus.  The Standard Press, Montrose.  15, illus

Steers 255

 

DILLYMAENAN CAVES                NGR NJ c680 648   1" OS 30                                                       Banff

Cullingford 1962  299

Hunter, J, 1868 Description of pit dwellings at Dilly-Moenanand the Miaave Craig, Tarlair, near MacDudd, Banffshire    PSAS 7  465-471

Statistical Account 1791-99  

 

DIPPEN HEAD CAVE                            NGR NS 050 224        Explorer 361      Arran

Brotchie, T C F ND [1911?]  Rambles in Arran.  61, illus.  30

Hall 1912  49

 

DIRK HATTERAICK'S CAVE       NGR NX 51 8 527        1" OS 73,80                   Ravenshall, Galloway

aka Torr's or Torrs Cave.

AA  18, 136, 143, 169

Anon 1853 Dirk Hatteraick in the cave, a painting by Charles H Weigall.  Illustrated London News April 23 p 305

Anon ND [c1972] Guide to Gatehouse of Fleet and District.  36, 16 pl

Anon 1914 Fifth Report of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, County of Stewarty and Kirkcudbright 298

Atkinson 86

Barnett  64

BC 64 3

Blake, B, ND The Solway Firth 177 reprinted BC 8 6; 9 10; 34 54

CRG Trans 3 (2) 118

Cullingford 1962  302

Dick  135, 1`43-146, illus reprinted BC 9 10; 43 10, 45 & 47

Dick, Rev C H, ND Galloway Glimpses reprinted BC 36 38

Donnachie & Macleod 120

Drummond, Robert, J, 1947 All Around Scotland.  Edinburgh London.  The Ettrick Press, Ltd.  42

Fleming, M, 1969 A Hunt for Two Caves.  Scot Mag. NS 90 (4) Jan 356-364, illus.  ditto Oct 4 a letter.

Gazetteer of Scotland reprinted BC 36 59 describes the entrance as a narrow crawl which opens up to 12 feet high inside

Glas SS Jl 1 (2), (3)

Graves, Charles Oct 1970 A Galloway Coaster.  18-24, photos.  Roger Quin lived in Dirk Hatteraick's Cave.

Irving, G, 1971 The Solway Smugglers' 72, illus.  R Dinwiddie & Co Ltd, Dumfries 26

Jefferson, J, 1938 The Compleat Smuggler reprinted BC 8 6

Jones  10

Kempe 407

Macleod, I F, 1969 Gatehouse of Fleet and Ferrytown of Cree.  Ancient Monuments and Historic Sites.  Studies in Galloway (2)  20.  see 18 item 206 and 19 item 208

Macleod 189

McCormick, Andrew.  1932  Galloway / The Spell of its Hills and Glens.  John Smith & Son (Glasgow) Ltd.  283 pp, illus, 122 Dirk Hatteraich's Cave.

Morris, S.V. 1937 Excavation of Torrs Cave, Kirkcudbright. PSAS 71 415-430, illus, figs S.

Nat Geo 112 (4) Oct 1957 464

Robertson, A.S. 1970 Roman finds from non-Roman sites in Scotland. Britannia 1: 198-226.

Scott, J.G. 1976 The Roman occupation of South-West Scotland from the recall of Agricola to the withdrawal under Trajan. Glasgow Archaeological Journal 4: 42, 44.

Scott, Sir Walter ND Guy Mannering (cave at Kirkdale or at Torrs = Dirk Hatteraick's Cave) mentioned  BC 36 58

Shaw 14 Item 67

Sloan  149, 208

Smith, Gavin D 2003 The Scottish Smuggler 71

Old Statistical Account 11 25 cited by Morris ibid

Statistical Account 1791-99 11 25

Statistical Account 1845  4 6 similar account to the above.

Statistical Account 1845 4 315 short description

Temperley  19, 272, 277,

 

DISTILLERY CAVE                         NGR NM 860 302   1" OS 46                                                       Oban

Ashmore, P J 1996 reprinted 2000  Neolithic Bronze Age Scotland.  128 pp, 85 B&W illus, 12 colour illus.  B T Batsford Ltd, London.  76

Cullingford 1962 300

Hallén, Y. 1994 Re-evaluation of the Human Skeletal Remains from MacKay Cave, Distillery Cave, and MacArthur Cave, Oban. Unpublished archive report, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.

Hedges, R.E.M. et al. 1995 Radiocarbon dates from the Oxford AMS system.  Archaeometry datelist 20. Archaeometry 37: 417-430.

Lacaille  208-209

Newell, R.R. et al. 1979 The skeletal remains of Mesolithic man in Western Europe: an evaluative catalogue. Journal of Human Evolution 8: 1-228.

RCAHMS 1975 5

Saville, A. & Hallén, Y. 1994 The 'Obanian Iron Age': human remains from the Oban cave sites, Argyll, Scotland. Antiquity 68: 715-723.

Tolan-Smith  6

Turner, W. 1895 On human and animal remains found in caves at Oban, Argyllshire. PSAS 29 410-438.

 

DOG KENNEL COTTAGE ROCKSHELTER       NGR NR 749 5 7675     1" OS 58                   Knapdale

Tolan-Smith  18

 

DOMHNUIL NAN ORD'S CAVE           NGR                                Landranger                       Loch Creran

see Caves of Appin

Weir, Ian 2005 A Life on the Land.  Part Fifteen: The Dog Star.  Scots Mag September 316-319

 

DONAL MOR'S CAVE              NGR                     Landranger                                                    Kindrogan

Donal, a poacher, hid in a cave in Kindrogan Rock.  Rather than face capture he hanged himself on Doal Mor's Knowe.

Fleming, Maurice, 1995 The Ghost o'Mause and other tales and traditions of East Perthshire. With a forward by Sir William Macphersson of Cluny.  Edinburgh, The Mercat Press.  80

 

DOO CAVE [1]                                        NGR NO 670 419        Landranger 54                 Arbroath, Angus

G[ardener], D A, ND [1973?] The Cliffs [in] Arbroath Official Guide  30

Kempe 407

Peterkin 54

 

DOO CAVE [2]                                  NGR NT 343 970    Landranger 59               East Wemyss, Fifeshire

Buckley et al 1974

Kempe 408 and photo on 409

Peterkin 45

Spel 1 (2) 33

 

DOO CAVE, LARGE see under Arbroath

 

DOOCOT CAVE see CROMARTY SUTORS, CAVES OF

 

DOON CAVE see KING'S CAVE, ARRAN

 

DOONAL, CAVE OF                        NGR ND 2432 7365     Explorer 451                                    Caithness

Marked Cave of Doonal on Explorer 451

 

DOUGLAS CAVE see LINTALEE CAVE

 

DOWALLY  CAVE                           NGR NO 000 470    Landranger 53                     Dunkeld, Perthshire

Caves in the back hills of Dowally.  Tenanted for months after the battle of Culloden.

Statistical Account 1845 10 997-998

 

DOVE CAVE see SUNLAWS CAVES

 

DOVE CAVES                       NGR NX 03 6 703                Explorer 30                                        Stranraer

Gregory, J W et al 1930 PSAS 64 247-264

Personal communication, John Picken, 15 March, 2005

 

DOVES CAVE                                         NGR NR 390 980        Landranger 61                             Colonsay

Grieve, S 1883 On the Crystal Spring Cavern, Colonsay.  (second communication) PSAS NS 5 351-352

 

DOWF HOLE                                    NGR NO 453 625    Landranger 44                                      Tannadice

Dorward 47, 110

 

DRAGON'S DEN or HOLE             NGR NO 135 226      Landranger 53            Kinnoull Hill, Perthshire

Fleming, Maurice 2000 The Sidlaws / Tales, Traditions and Ballards.  Mercat Press, Edinburgh.  74-76

Gibson, Colin c1950 Folklore of Tayside.  Dundee Museum and Art Gallery Publication.  13

Gibson, Colin Feb 1978 Up on Kinnoull.  Scots Mag 108 (5) 525-531.

Dorward, David 2004 The Sidlaw Hills.  Pinkfoot Press, Angus.  77, 118

New Stat Acc 10 935-936, 1207-1208

Old Stat Acc 18 560

Palmer 1947 182

Penny, George, 1836 Traditions of Perth, containing sketches of the manners and customs of the inhabitants, and notices of public occurrences, during the last century: interesting extracts from old records: notices of the neighbouring localities of historical interest: topographical sketch of the county;: brief history of Perth etc.  Perth, Messers Dewar, Sidel, Morison, Peat and Drummond.  270, 321-322.  [Colin McLeod comments "I think probably every later account of the traditional festivities at Kinnoull's Dragon's Hole is largely based on Penny's book - or more specifically Andrew Buist's appendix describing local tradition's]

Salvona, Jim 2002 Dragon's Hole, Kinnoull Hill, Perth.  GG Ser 4 1 (2) 12-13

Tranter  117

 

DRAINIE CAVE  this is Sculptor's Cave

Pennant 1774 271

 

DREADED HENDERSONS, CAVE OF     NGR NT 146 547  1" OS 62                  Carlops, Peeblesshire

GSG Bull 4th Ser 2 (1) 37 March 2004

 

DREEL CASTLE CAVE                   NGR                     Landranger

Stevenson, David  2001THE BEGGARS'S BENISON / Sex clubs of Enlightenment Scotland and their Rituals  265 pp, 16 plates and illus in text.  East Lothian, Tuckwell Press.  139 Dreel Castle, back entrance leading to the sea.

 

DRIFTWOOD CAVE see under ARBROATH

 

DROCHAID A'GHLINNE EAST ROCK SHELTER     NGR NR 7960 8230   1" OS 58           Knapdale

Tolan-Smith  21

 

DROCHAID A'GHLINNE WEST ROCK SHELTER    NGR NR 7960 8230   1" OS 58           Knapdale

Tolan-Smith  21

 

DROPPING CAVE see CROMARTY SUTORS, CAVES OF

 

DROPPING CAVE                        NGR NX 076 421       Explorer 309                                       Portpatrick

Macleod 267

Walker, J Russel 1883 "Holy Wells" in Scotland. PSAS 17  152-208

 

DRUIMNANRAMHCAVE     NGR NG 47 0 226          Landranger 32                                              Skye

 

DRUIMVARGIE CAVE                         NGR NM 856 296       1" OS 52                                 Oban, Argyll

Anderson, J, 1895 Notice of a cave recently discovered at Oban, containing human remains, and a refuse heap of shells and bones of animals, and stone and bone implements. PSAS 39 numbering seems odd 29 ? 211-30

Anderson, J, 1897-8 Notes on the Contents of a small Cave or Rock Shelter at Druimargie, Oban; and of three shell mounds in Oronsay.  PSAS 32 or 33 298-313 illus

Bonsall 1996  186-7

Cullingford 1962  299

Garrod, D A E, 1927 The Upper Palaeolithic Age in Britain,  181-182.  Oxford Clarendon Press.

Jones  4

Lacaille  206-207

MacGregor 179 W L Oban 135

Pollard  184, 186, 190

RCAHMS 1975  60, No 98 (4)

Simpson 1968 37

Tolan-Smith  6, 7, 10

WL Oban 1936/7 Drimvargie Cave

 

DRUMIDOON CAVE see KING'S CAVE, Arran

 

DUGLAS CAVE see LINTALEE CAVE

 

DUKE'S OR EARL'S BED           vcNGR NN 140 130    1" OS 53                          Glen Shira, Argyllshire

Campbell & Sandeman 7, No 22

Records of Argyle: Lord Archibald Campbell.  Edinburgh  1985  42, 57, 72

Tolan-Smith  9

 

DUIN, UAMH AN        NGR NF 69 6 080     Landranger 31                  Eoligarry, Barra, Outer Hebrides

also known as Scurrival Cave

Branigan, K., ed. 1998 The Western Isles Project. 11th Interim Report. Department of Archaeology and Prehistory, University of Sheffield.

Branigan, K. 1998 Scurrival Cave, Barra. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 1998: 98-99.

Haswell-Smith 178

Young, A. 1958 Excavations at Dun Cuier, Isle of Barra. PSAS 89 291.

 

DUNAGOIL CAVE                                 NGR NS 085 535        Landranger 63                                    Bute,

Baxter 526

Bevan, P, 1962  The Caves of Bute.  PAS N/L (18) 30-32

GSG Ser 5 5 (5) March 2001 10.

Price, G 1997 Cave Conservation Handbook.  Caves Scheduled as Ancient Monuments (SAMs) 14-3

Richie, James, 1918 Cave Hunting in Scotland.  Scottish Naturalist 77 97-102

Steers 96

 

DUN ARNAL CAVE                               cNGR NM 819 040  1" OS 52                  Knapdale, Argyllshire

Campbell & Sandeman 6 No 9

Tolan-Smith  9

 

DUNAVERTY CAVE see BOES' CAVE

 

DUNBAR CAVE                               NGR NT 677 7  794       Landranger 67                                     Dunbar

Geikie 51

Pennat 1774 45

 

DUN BHCALAICH ROCK SHELTER          NGR NR 7393 8714      1" OS 52                          Knapdale

Tolan-Smith  21

 

DUNBURY SEA CAVE                    cNGR NK 110 381       Landranger 30             south of Cruden Bay

Steers 234

 

DUNCANSBY HEAD CAVE           NGR ND 40 4 729           Explorer 451                                  Caithness

Everett, Nick 2001 Duncansby Head SSI.  Earth Science Management Brief Project.  SNH  23.

May & Hanson  Duncansby and Skirza, Caithness 86-90, map, photo.  Map shows the location of one cave.

Polson, Alexander 1926 Our Highland Folklore Heritage.  George Souter, Dingwall. 77

Sellers, Robin M 2007 Common Starlings roosting in sea caves.  British Birds (100) 124. February.  Many caving areas sited including Duncansby Head and Castle of Old Wick.

 

DUN, CAVES OF see ST KILDA, CAVES OF

 

DUNDONALD CASTLE                  NGR NS 36 3 345                          Landranger                   Kilmarnock

Crae, John 2001 Caves, Cairns, Tunnels, Passages and Pits, Part 2 GSG Ser 4 1 (1) 35.  A pit prison.

 

DUNFERMLINE SUBTERRANEOUS PASSAGE                               NGR Landranger       Dunfermline

Cook, Helen 1983 A Haunting of Ghosts and an Unsolved Mystery of St Andrews.  Dundee, David Winter & Sons Ltd.  73-74

 

DUNIMO POT see BEL CRAIG (OR CRAG) POTHOLE

 

*DUNKELD, CAVES OF                 NGR NO 020 439    Landranger 53                     Dunkeld, Perthshire

see also Duwally Cave, Ossian's Cave, Queen Margaret's Cave.

Marked Caves of the 1" OS map.  On the side of Craig-y-barns, overlooking the King's pass are two cave, - one is called the Hermit's Cave, the other, Duncan Hogg's Hole.  Neither of them are of any size.  Duncan, who was a lawless character, was shot, on his return from the well of St Columba, on the east side of the King's Seat.  The Duchess's Cave is on the east side of Craig-y-barns.  It is partly artificial.  At one time, it was very neatly fitted up, but is now much destroyed.

Buxbaum, Tim 1989  Scottish Garden Buildings / from Food to Folly.  Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh.  147-148, illus.

Mackay, Sheila 2001 Early Scottish Gardens.  A Writer's Odyssey.  198 Hermit's Cave, The Hermitage, Dunkeld.

Statistical Account 1845 10 988

 

DUN NA DOIDE BOULDER CAVE      NGR NR 7047 7697  1" OS 58                                      Knapdale

Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 1975 15

 

DUNNET'S HEAD, CAVES OF     NGR ND 200 765   Explorer 451                                           Caithness

Statistical Account 1791-99   11 257

Naylor, Robert N & Naylor J N 1916 From John O'Groats to Land's End or 1372 miles on foot.  A book of day and chronicles of adventure by two pedestrians on tour.  Caxton Publishing Co, London.  25. 29

 

DUN NA DOIDE BOULDER CAVE      NGR NR 7047 7697  1" OS 58                                      Knapdale

Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 1975 15

 

DUNNET HEAD, CAVES OF        NGR ND 20 0 765   Explorer 451                   Caithness

Most northerly point on the British mainland

Kempe 142 refers to caves on the coast at Ham, NGR ND 24 4 738, used by Tinkers.

Statistical Account 1791-99   11 257   "2 or 3 caves in Dunnet Head and one at Ham, access difficult".

Naylor, Robert N & Naylor J N 1916 From John O'Groats to Land's End or 1372 miles on foot.  A book of day and chronicles of adventure by two pedestrians on tour.  Caxton Publishing Co, London.  25.  On p 29 a sea cave between Murkle and Castlehill.  A local lad chatted up a mermaid and she gave him treasure from her cave which in turn came from all the ships wrecked in the Pentland Firth.  But he was unfaithful so she enticed him to the cave and secured him there with a chain of gold.

See also : http://www.caithness.org/history/historyofcaithness/chapter1/pagetwo.htm     accessed 17.5.06

Extract from History of Caithness by J.T. Calder.  Mentions the story of the mermaid.

Smiles, LLD, Samuel 1878 Robert Dick [1811 Jan - 1866 Dec] Baker of Thurso, Geologist and Botanist.  London, John Murray.  81, 85,

 

DUNOLLIE CAVE                                  NGR NM 851 321       1" OS 46                         Oban, Argyllshire

Gentleman's Magazine; Archaeology pt 1 1828 reprinted BC 13 12

Gordon 1949 234

MacDougall, A J, 1907 Notice of the Excavation of a Rock Shelter at Duncliffe, Oban.  PSAS 41 181-182

Murray 1805 26

Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland 1975 Argyll, an Inventory of the Ancient Monuments, volume 1: Lorn. RCAHMS, Edinburgh.  58-9

Tolan-Smith  5

 

DUNSINANE HILL CAVE              NGR                         Landranger Dunsinane Hill

Heyde, D M 1954 Is it is Scotland? The Stone of Destiny.  Scot Mag 1 (2) May.  166  Cave in Dunsinane Hill was original resting place of The Stone of Destiny.

 

DUNSKEY CASTLE CAVE          NGR NX 003 533       Explorer 309                                     Portpatrick

Macleod 258

Holmes p 48 records the story of a piper who died in a cave beneath the castle.  His ghost is said to be heard playing the pipes, even as late at 1973.

Wood, J M 1911 Witchcraft and Superstitious Record in the South-Western District of Scotland.  Maxwell. [quoted by Holmes]

 

DUNSTAFINAGE CAVE                       NGR NM 879 342       1" OS 46                                             Oban

 

DUNTROON CAVE [Duntrune?]    NGR NR 800 959    Landranger 63              Loch Crinan, Argyllshire

Campbell & Sandeman 6, No 10

Corrie et al 1875 PSAS 10 466 ff

Cullingford 1962 300

Jones  4

Lacaille  197-198 S

M'Arthur  87  Cave at Knapdale containing an altar, a font and a cross cut in the solid rock.  from Chambers' Caledonia 1 New Statistical Account [same caves as above?]

Mapleton, R.J. 1870 Report on prehistoric remains in the neighbourhood of the Crinan Canal, Argyllshire. Journal of the Ethnological Society of London 2: 153-154.

Mapleton, R.J. 1874 Note of a bone cave at Duntroon. PSAS 10: 306-308.

Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (1988) Argyll, an Inventory of the Monuments: Mid Argyll and Cowal, Prehistoric and Early Historic Monuments. RCAHMS, Edinburgh  3,

Saville, A. & Hallén, Y. 1994 The 'Obanian Iron Age': human remains from the Oban cave sites, Argyll, Scotland. Antiquity 68: 715-723.

Tolan-Smith  8, 10

 

DURNESS, CAVES OF                          NGR NC 400 680        1" OS 9                                      Sutherland

CRG N/L (110)  14

CRG Trans 5 (2) 151

 

THE DWARFIE STONE                  NGR HY 244 005    Landranger 7                                    Hoy

Anderson 1863 765-766

Bailey, Patrick 1971 Orkney [The Island Series]. David & Charles, Newton Abbot.  214-215

Black 1873 593

Cope, John 1998 The Modern Antiquarian.  A Pre-Millennial Odessey Through Megalithic Britain, including a gazetteer to over 300 Prehistoric sites.  Glasgow, Thorsons.  405 The Dwarfie Stone.

Crae, John 2001 Caves, Cairns, Tunnels, Passages and Pits, Part 2 GSG Ser 4 1 (1) 37

Gunn, J 1932 Orkney / The Magnetic North.  Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd. London etc. 184-186

Haswell-Smith 283-284 Dwarfie Stone

Laughlan 72

Miller 1897  470-475  Dwarfie Stone of Hoy.

Ritchie 194-195

Simpson 1968 53 Dwarfie Stone

Tindall 126 Dwafie Stane

Some nice photos are to be found on:.http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/8624   

                                                                                accessed 17.5.06

 

DYNAMITE CAVE see under ARBROATH

 

DYSART CAVE                       NGR NT 30 2 929             Landranger 59                      Kirkcaldy, Fifeshire

aka St Serf's  Cave

Anon ND The Kingdom of Fife in Days Gone By.  Lang Syne Publishers, Glasgow, Scotland.  No page numbers.

Black's 1873 160

Cunningham, A S ?? Dysart, Past and Present

Dickson, John 1899 Emeralds Chased in Gold or, Islands of the Forth; Their Story Ancient and Modern.  323, illus.  Oliphant Anderson & Farrar, Edinburgh  107

Evening Telegraph 30.1.60

Fife Free Press 13.9.52

Glas SS Jl 1 (4)

Gray, Tom, Spring/Summer 1999 Coastal Caves: A Record of Fife Ancestry. Forthsight [N/L of the Forth Estuary Forum] (3) 8

Guthrie, W 1904 Dysart Inscriptions

Lamont-Brown, Raymond 1988 Discovering Fife.  John Donald Publishers Ltd. Edinburgh.67 

Millar, A H, 1895 Fife: Pictorial and historical.  Its people, burghs, castles and mansion.  Westwood, Cupar.  2 vols. Vol 1 12-13 PSAS 2 522

St Serf's Cave

Yuill 29

 

EARL'S CAVE see DUKE'S CAVE

 

EARLSFERRY CAVE see KINCRAIG CAVE

 

EAS AN CON, UAMH NAN

also known as Stewart's Cave, see under Ardsheal's Cave

 

*EAST WEMYSS, CAVES OF               NGR NT 350 970        Landranger 59                              Fifeshire

AA  154, 269

Anon  --- Early Christian Monuments of Scotland  370-373

Anon [=Davidson, W, ?] 1968 The Caves of East Wemyss, Fife.  Harper Caver (4) 28-29

Anon ND The Kingdom of Fife in Days Gone By.  Lang Syne Publishers, Glasgow, Scotland.  No page numbers.

Anon ND Strange Tales of Bygone Fife.  Lang Syne Publishers, Glasgow, Scotland.  No page numbers.  Appears to be an edited reprint of Simpkins 1912 Tales of Bygone Fife.  Also lists a few local cave legend.

Anon  June 1981 Unique Fife caves are in danger. Courier

Anon 1989 Fife's Early Archaeological Heritage - A Guide.  Fife Regional Council, Glenrothes.  58 Chapter 13 Wemyss Caves

Anon 1999 Pictish Symbol Stones / an illustrated guide.  RCAHMS, Edinburgh 24.

Anon 03.06.2004  Project to excavate Wemyss caves.  Courier.

Anderson, Joseph 1881 Scotland in Early Christain Times.  236  illus.  184-185 Caves in Fife, Jonathan's Cave, Doo Cave etc finds illus.

Ballantyne, G H, 1982 The Wildlife and Antiquities of Kirkcaldy District.  Kirkvaldt Naturalists' Society, Centenary Publication 1882-1982.  Chapter Twelve, Antiquities by J L B Thomsom 190-191, illus.

Baxter 525

Bease, J B Jan 1978 Letters to the Editor, "Treasures of Wemyss". Scots Mag 108 (4) 432

Brown, Hamish. 2007 Doocots of the Fife Coast.  Scots Mag 166 (3) March, 250-251.  Wemyss Caves.

Childe, V Gordon, 1935 The Prehistory of Scotland.  Kegan Paul Trubner & Co Ltd, London  116, reprinted BC 14 80

Corrie et al 1875 PSAS 10 466 ff

Cullingford 1962  301

Davidson see Anon 1968

Davidson, W, 1972 (Oct) Caves of East Wemyss.  Darwen Magnet (8) (mentions Mr A Wilson, postmaster of East Wemyss who has done much work in the caves).

Dickson, John 1899 Emeralds Chased in Gold or, Islands of the Forth; Their Story Ancient and Modern.  323, illus.  Oliphant Anderson & Farrar, Edinburgh  254

Duckeck, Jochen 2002 Wemyss Caves.  http://www.showcaves.com/english/caves/Wemyss.html   accessed 20/12/2005

Fox, Selana 1996 Wemyss Caves.  4.  This page is no longer on the web (the host site being taken over by an American website), although extracts are quoted in other blogs.  Personal communication Colin McLeod July 2005.

Fraser, Sir William, 1888 Notes on the Family of Wemyss from Memoirs of the Family of Wemyss.  (not seen, mentions 9 caves and synonyms).

Fraser, Duncan, 1982 Historic Fife. Melven Press, Perth.  33-36, illus.

Geddie, John 1927 The Fringes of Fife / New and Enlarged Edition, Illus by Arthur Wall and Louis Weirter.  110, 113-115

Geikie 56

Gentleman Magazine Part 4 August 1949

Gifford, John 1988 Fife.  Penguin Books, London. 28, 205.

Glasgow Herald 4 August 1955

Graham-Campbell, David 1979 Portrait of Perth, Angus and Fife.  Robert Hale, London. 218-219

Gray, Tom, Spring/Summer 1999 Coastal Caves: A Record of Fife Ancestry. Forthsight [N/L of the Forth Estuary Forum] (3) 8

GSG Ser 5 5 (5) March 2001 12-13.

Guttman, Erika B  2002. Tayside and Fife Arch Jl 8

Halliday, W R, 1971 Scots seek preservation of bronze age cave carvings.  NSS News 29 (8) 103-104

Henderson, T F, & Watt, F, 1907 Scotland of Today.  Methuen & Co, London.  136

Hidalgo, Alexander 1974 The Wemyss Caves.  Kirkcaldy Art Gallery.  no page numbers.

Hutcheson, Alexander 1916 Early Underground Dwellings in Scotland.  Proc Trans Dundee Naturalists' Society 1 (2) 34

Jones  4

Jones, Duncan 1998 A Wee Guide to the Picts.  Edinburgh & Musselburgh, Goblinhead.  Item 53

Kelly, Charlene 2004 Fife's Famous Wemyss caves are to benefit from a much-needed £20,000 boost. 

                                                  http://www.the courier.co.uk/output/2004/06/01/nesstory6026287t0.asp  accessed 10/05/2005

Kühn, H, 1956 The Rock Pictures of Europe.  230, illus.  Sedgwick & Jackson, London.

Lacaille, A D  1925  Some ancient crosses in Dumbartonshire and adjoining counties.  PSAS 59 143

Lamont-Brown, Raymond 1988 Discovering Fife.  John Donald Publishers Ltd. Edinburgh.67-68

Lang 1951 215-218

Leighton, John M, 1860 History of the County of Fife 3 163-171.  Joseph Swan, Glasgow.  mentions 7 caves

Lewis, Carenza 2004 My Time [Time Team at Wemyss]  Current Archaeology (193) Aug/Sept 17-19 illus.

Lindenmayr, Franz ND Mensch und Höhle.  Die Wemyss Caves, Fife, Schottland.  6, illus. 

                                                http://www.lochstein.de.hoehlen/Gb/wemyss/weymss.htm

Lindsay, Maurice 1953 The Lowlands of Scotland / Glasgow and the North.  Robert Hale Ltd, London.  182

MacLagan, Miss C, 1876 Notes on the sculptured caves near Dysart in Fife.  PSAS 11 107-120

Manson, Tommy ND The origins and history of Wemyss Caves.  http://www.thefifepost.com/wemyssscaves.html  accessed 10/02/2005

McIntosh, Donald R P, 1975 The Mysteries of the Wemyss Caves.  Scotland's Magazine April 14-16 , 5 photos

McKerracher, A C Nov 1977 The Treasures of Wemyss.  Scot Mag 108  (2) 154-162

McKinlay, Shelagh 2000  The Scottish Parliament, 25th Meeting, Session 1 (2000) Wednesday 1 November 2000.  Petition PE23 from by Save Wemyss Ancient Caves Society calling for action to be taken to repair storm damage to the access of the caves.

McKirdy, Alan, John Gordon and Roger Crofts 2007  Land of Mountain and Flood / The Geology and Landforms of Scotland.  Birlinn 13, 15 East Wemyss Caves.

Mortimer, Nigel 1995 Pipistrelles in a sea cave. Scottish Bats (3) 17.  No location given, sounds lick Court Cave.

O[ldham] A D, & Court, A, 1965 The Sculptured Caves of East Wemyss.  Speleologist 1 (2) 33-34

Patrick, John, 1905 The Sculptured Caves of East Wemyss.  The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist.  10 73-78, 249 et seq.  11 37; 12 189

Price, G 1997 Cave Conservation Handbook.  Caves Scheduled as Ancient Monuments (SAMs) 14-3

Proc Royal Soc of Edinburgh 1866 5 521 et seq

Rankin, Frank 1984 The Wemyss Caves.  Published privately?  33, illus.

Rankin, Frank 1988, revised and reprinted 2001  Guide to the Wemyss Caves.  Save Wemyss Ancient Caves Society.  45, illus.

Rhiannon, posted by 3 June 2004 Wemyss Caves Carvings Laser Scanned.  http://www.themodernantiquarian.com  accessed 10/05/2005

Ritchie 107-109

Royal Commission on Ancient & Historical Monuments of Scotland 11th Report

Scots Mag 1977 Nov 154-162; 1978 Jan 432

Shell Guide to Britain 189 reprinted BC 54 9

Simpson, J Y, 1866 On ancient sculpturings of cups and concentric rings etc.  PSAS 6 appendix 1-146

Simpson, J F, 1867 Account of some ancient sculptures on walls of caves of Fife.  22, illus.  4to Edinburgh

Smith, Alexander 1952 The County of Fife.  The Third Statistical Account of Scotland.  543-544.  Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh and London.

Smith,  (Mrs) Margaret I MacPhee, 10.01.92 Displaying the cave findings.  [Reader's letter] Courier.

Statistical Account 1791-99  16 531-532  There are seven caves.  Four of them were fitted up and still are pigeon-houses.  Jonathan's Cave mention etc.  Court Cave and the King being uncovered are also mentioned.

Stuart's Sculpture Stones of Scotland, appendix to preface, p lxxxvii  not seen

Sutherland, Ian, April 1998  Our Pictish Past / Ian Sutherland traces the history and heritage of the Picts in Fife.  Scots Mag 148 (4) 377-381

Wace A J B and Prof Jehu 1915 Cave Excavations in East Fife.  Proc Soc Antiq Scot 49 233-255

Weekly Scotsman 18/12/58

Weir, Tom,  May 1987 Going Forth.  Scots Mag 127 (2) 190-195

 

EAVAL, CAVE ON                           NGR NF 905 7 5967                      1" OS 23                                                                                                      North Uist

Harris, Dan 2004 Caves on North and South Uist.  GSG Bul 4 Ser 2 (2)10

 

EDINBURGH CASTLE, Fire access Tunnel   NT 249-734-NT 254 736   Landranger                Edinburgh

Crae, John 2001 Caves, Cairns, Tunnels, Passages and Pits, Part 2 GSG Ser 4 1 (1) 33

 

*EIGG, CAVES OF (pron egg)               NGR NM 480 900       Landranger 39   Inverness-shire

Clanronald's Cave.  Donaldson 233

Frances Cave:  NGR NM 452 841  L 90 feet.

Pigeon Cave:  MacGregor, A A, 1963 Isle of Singing Sand. Country Life.  132 (3416) 394-396, illus.

Kempe 407

Uamh Mhic-il Ailein nan Eilean: vide MacGregor above

Uamh Chloinndiridm or Chloinn Diridh: Donaldson, M E M, 1927 Wandering in the Western Highlands & Islands 3rd ed reprinted BC 32 28

Baxter 526

Donaldson 234

Haswell-Smith 110 location map, 3 caves; 111 Cathedral Cave

Martin 276 Cave on south west coast, capable of holding several hundred people, 278-279 possibly a souterrain

Martin c1695 302

There are six caves at Tolm Point.  The first two are insignificant, the third is a fairly large raised beach sea cave.  then one with a low entrance.  Another with a high entrance, but only 40 feet deep.  The next is 90 feet deep with an equally large `Y' branch.  The last one is fairly large and unusual in that a `Puffer' steamboat has unsuccessfully tried to go caving!  Report by Jim Salvona.

Baxter 459  The Shag .... breeding in a cave at the south end of the island.

Murray 1805 94 caves of South Coast. 393-395 Massacre Cave

 

EILEACH AN NAOIMH ORATORY         NGR NM 64 1 097          Explorer 359           The Garvellachs

Haswell-Smith  59  One of the cells of the Clochainm which could have been an oratory has an underground cell beside it, looks a Pictish souterrain, which could have been a wine cellar.

 

EILEAN A'CHLEIRICH, CAVES OF         NGR NB 9 2 02               Landranger 15      Ross & Cromarty

or Priest Island.  The most westerly of the Summer Isles.

Darling 29, 30, 44, 45, 46, 56, 58, 59 sea cave 134 yards long, 60 Geodha [sea cave] 61 Toll an Chleirich - the priest's hole.  A sea cave with a karst fenster, 303 map.

Haswell-Smith  154 location map, 5 caves.  Moll na h-Uamh or Cave Point is the highest part of the island.  The cave is on the coast at NGR NB 930 017.  155   A cave, NB 927 026, on a little boulder beach has signs of human habitation and was probably used by smugglers.  Toll Eilean a'Chleirich (Priest's Hole) NB 927 029

 

EILEAN DUBH MÓR, CAVES OF             NGR NM 6995 1045      Explorer 359                              Oban

Haswell-Smith 62 location map shows two caves:  Cave  NGR NM 6995 1045 & Uamh an Sgiathain NGR NM 6880 10 28.  Both caves appear to be on the raised beach.

 

EILEAN MÓR, caves of                         NGR NG 69 6 354             Landranger 32       Crowlin Islands

Haswell-Smith 129 a rock shelter has provided storage for visiting fisherman NGR NG 690 353 and on the east coast there is an interesting cave NGR NG 693 352.  130 location map, cave and rock shelter.

 

EILEAN NA CILLE CAVE        cvNGR  NR 750 970     1" OS 52               Eilean na Cille, Sound of Jura

Campbell & Sandeman 6

Tolan-Smith  10

 

EILEAN NA CILLE CAVE        NGR  NR 751 971         1" OS 52               Eilean na Cille, Sound of Jura

Campbell & Sandeman 6, No 11

Tolan-Smith  10

 

EILEAN NAN RÒN, CAVES OF                  NGR NC 64 65                Explorer 448     Tongue, Sutherland

aka Island of Seals.

Haswell-Smith 162 Uamh nan Ròn, 163 location map, 4 caves.

 

EILEAN TRAIGHE ANCHORAGE CAVE         NGR NR 720 8 7396     1" OS 58                      Knapdale

Tolan-Smith  21

 

ELFIE HOLE see CLEAVES COVE

 

ELLARY BOULDER CAVE            NGR NR 7392 7650    1" OS 58                        Knapdale, Argyllshire

Campbell & Sandeman  6, No 12

RCAHMS 1988  208, No 359

Tolan-Smith  8, 15, 73-148

 

ELLARY ROCK SHELTER            NGR NR 7392 7650    1" OS 58                        Knapdale, Argyllshire

Tolan-Smith 15, 73-148

 

ELPHIN HOLE see ASSYNT, CAVES OF

 

ELF HOUSE CAVE                           NGR NJ 298 293     Landranger 37                                        Dufftown

 

ELLERY BOULDER CAVE            NGR NR 7392 7650    1" OS 58                        Knapdale, Argyllshire

Campbell & Sandeman  6,

RCAHMS 1988  208,

Tolan-Smith

 

ELLERY ROCKSHELTER              NGR NR 7392 7650    1" OS 58                        Knapdale, Argyllshire

A 390 feet.  A small rock shelter 10 by 6 feet with a maximum height of 5 feet and a south easterly aspect.

Tolan-Smith

 

ERIBOLL LOCH

Pennant 1774 327

 

ERIBOLL SEA CAVES     NGR NC 455 645 to NGR NC 50 0 680          1" OS 9                      Sutherland

BB (154) 3  A series of caves on the east shore of Loch Eriboll ... also refers to The Scottish Clans and Tartans pub W A K Johnson, Edinburgh 80

Corbel 269, 274

CRG N/L (12) reprinted BC 18 38

CRG Trans 5 (2)

ERT 18-

Ford 1959  154

Glas SS Jl 1 (4) 67; Glas SS N/L Oct 1967

GSG 3 (4) 26; GSG 4 (2) 26, 32 S, 33-35 S

Laughlan 82-83

Motoring 226

Murray 1968 357

 

ERICSTANE CAVES                       NGR NT 079 112    1" OS 68                           Moffat, Dumfriesshire

A group of man-made caves in sandstone and varying in depth from 6 to 15 feet with similar widths. Report by Jim Salvona

Statistical Account 1791-99   2 288.  Brief mention of a cave at Moffat water

 

EYEMOUTH AND DISTRICT, CAVES OF      NGR NT 945 640 (town)    Landranger 67  Berwickshire

AA  161     GSG 4 (2) S     Shell Guide to Britain reprinted BC 54 9

Brazier, Paul; Davies, Jon; Holt, Rohan; and Eleanor Murray 1998 South-east Scotland and north-east England / Area summaries.  Joint Nature Conservation Committee.  47-55 sub-littoral caves.

Clark, Mike, Jan 2004 The Silent Partner.  Diver [magazine] 49 (1) 35-38, illus.  Sub-litorial caves at St Abb's Head, Burnmouth Cave etc.

Crockett, W S 1926 Berwickshire and Roxburghshire.  Cambridge County Geographies. 54, 56

ERT 31-54

Statistical Account 1845 2 279-280

Steers 1969 87

 

EYNHALLOW, CAVES OF             NGR HY 35 29        Landranger 6                                     near Rousay

Haswell-Smith 316 location map, Cave of the Twenty Men Hole HY 355 296, and Cave Geo HY 360 295.

 

FACTOR'S CAVE                             NGR NT 344 966    Landranger 59               East Wemyss, Fifeshire

Kempe 409

Patrick, John, 1906  The sculptured caves of East Wemyss.  The Reliquary & Illustrated Archaeologist  part 3 37

Spel 1 (2) 33-34

 

FAIR ISLE                                         NGR HZ 2 1 72              Landranger 4                                                  

Haswell-Smith 337-340

Howson, Christine 1999 Shetland / Area summaries.  Marine Nature Conservation Review, Sector 1. JNCC.  Coast and seas of the United Kingdom.  249, 250, 253,  fig 32.1

Laughlan 50, 52,

Steers 284

 

FAIRY CAVE                                    NGR NR                      Explorer 359                                            Luing

GSG Ser 4 2 (3) 7

 

FAIRY LOCHAN CAVES                NGR NS 336 995    1" OS 53                      Lock Lomond, Perthshire

 

FALL OF FYRES CAVES                NGR NH 489 189    Landranger 34                                    Stratherrich

aka Foyers. 

Laughlan 1982 74-75

 

FALL OF TUMMEL CAVE             NGR NN 910 590    Landranger 52                     Pitlochry, Perthshire

Cave near the Fall of the Tummel.  Members of clan Alpin sought asylum here.

Statistical Account 1845 10 754

 

FASKADALE BAY CAVES               NGR NM 5 0 70                  Landranger 47                 Ardnamurchan

or Fascadale

Steers 80

 

FAST CASTLE HEAD CAVES              NGR NT 8615 7107    Landranger 67                       Berwickshire

Brazier, Paul; Davies, Jon; Holt, Rohan; and Eleanor Murray 1998 South-east Scotland and north-east England / Area summaries.  Joint Nature Conservation Committee.  47-55 sub-littoral caves.

BC 33 pt 1 24-26

Douglas, Fred, 1971 Gold at Wolf's Crag?  An inquiry into the treasure of Fast Castle.  222, illus.  Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh.

ERT 22

Graham. Angus 1968-69 Archaeological Notes on some Harbours in Eastern Scotland.  PSAS 101 206

Pyatt 1960  202

Scots Mag 1967 April 67-76

Scotsman June 23 1969 (refers to buried treasure)

Thomson, A, 1908 Coldringham Parish and Priory.  pub Craghead Bros, Galashields.  184 and illus opp 183

Weir, Tom, Nov 1978 On Top of the Bass.  Scots Mag 110 (2) 177-183

 

FEAR, UAMH NA                NGR NR 751 666         Explorer 358                    Eilean Mór, Sound of Jura

[=The Cave of the Man].  Also called Cormac's Cave and St Cormac's Cave.  Now owned by the Trustees of the Scottish Nationalist Party, 6 Charlotte Street, Edinburgh.  It is in the guardianship of Historic Scotland.

Campbell & Sandeman 66, No 431

Currie, 2nd St Acc 1846 8

Gordon 1949 341

GSG Ser 5 5 (5) March 2001 12.  Scheduled Monument 901139

Macintyre, Lorn 1986 June  Scots Mag 125 (3) 274-278 illus.

McOwan, Rennie. 1997 Eilean Mor - Island of Saints. 

RCAHMS 1988  3-5, 8, 68-69, 74,

Tolan-Smith  10

 

FEINNS, CAVE OF                  NGR NH 6 8x 52x        1" OS 28                     Munlochy, Ross & Cromarty

See also Craigiehowe Cave.  This is where a band of warriors lie wrapped in slumber awaiting the call on the silver trumpet of their chivalrous leader, Fin Mac-Col.  According to the legend, the water of a well trickling through the roof were said to be a cure for deafness.  On the top of the 400 ft high Craigiehowe is Taindore, the former home of Donald Fraser.

http://members.roger.com/tripperary/g1974trip.html

 

FERN CAVE see ARBROATH, CAVES OF

 

FERRIDE'S or FERUDEN DEN     NGR ?                      Landranger Angus

Kempe 1988  194  "Late in the reign of James ll another brigand is said to have lived with his wife and family in a den called Feruiden or Ferride's Den, in Angus.  They too practised cannibalism, for which they were burned, apart from the youngest daughter of twelve months.  However-strange to relate-she was condemned to death for the same crime when she grew up". 

 

FEUR LOCH BOULDER CAVES AND ROCK SHELTER      NR 7865 8233   1" OS 58          Knapdale

Tolan-Smith  21

 

FIDRA ISLAND CAVE                    NGR NT 51 5   867  Landranger 66                              North Berwick

Craig, G Y, and Duff, P McL D, 1975 The Geology of the Lothians and south east Scotland.  Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh.  88 Natural arch and raised beach with a cave.

 

*FINGAL'S CAVE                                  NGR NM 3237 3505   Landranger 46              Staffa, Argyllshire

nb, to avoid duplication, the Staffa references are listed here under Fingal's Cave.

AA  9, 164, 181, Staffa 254, 267

Adams see Davenport Adams

Adams see Figuier, L,

Addy, David, 2000 A voyage round Great Britain, 3 The Highlands and Islands of Scotland.  Staplehurst: Spellmount Ltd.

Allan, Paul M and Joan deRis Allen 1999  Fingal's Cave, the Poems of Ossian and Celtic Christianity.  198 pp 99 B&W &  8 colour illus.  Continuum Publishing Co, New York.

Anderson  95-96

[Anderson?] 1835 Anderson's Guide Book to the Highlands & Islands of Scotland

Anderson 1863 194-1997

Andrew  49,

Anon ND Beautiful Britain 1 125, illus

Anon ND Grand Photographic view album of Iona and Staffa (landscape views, no text) 8° Valentine & Son, Series of Collotype View Book

Anon ND Our Own Country 39-42, illus

Anon ND Wonders of the World.  Odhams Press.  London  597, 598, 608, illus

Anon ND The Wonder and Beauties of Creation.  Gill and Ingles, London.  frontispiece, 247-253 includes Scott's poem and unacknowledged translation of Lanoye

Anon 1808  476

Anon 1822 The Cave of Fingal.  The Youth's Instructor and Guardian 6 (62) 37-41, illus

Anon 1823 Gallery of Nature and Art Anon 1823 Gallery of Nature and Art 1 illus opp [5] (Shaw 97)

Anon ND [1825?] The Caves of the Earth ...  192.  The Religious Tract Society.  48-54

Anon 1830  282-288 with illus of Fingal's Cave 4" x 2½" approx, entrance looking out, 3 men in a boat on a rock.

Anon 1832 Fingal's Cave.  The Penny Magazine 1 (29) Sept 15, 236-238, illus

Anon 1833 Some Accounts of Natural Caverns & Grottoes.  Saturday Magazine (42) 73, 78, 79, illus.  [in Platten's MSS Notes 25 ]

Anon 1834 Itineraire et Souvenirs d'Angleterre et Ecosse 1814-1826 3 Paris illus opp 284

Anon 1845 The Tour of the Duke of Somerset and the Rev J H Michell through parts of England, Wales and Scotland, in the year 1795.  London

Anon 1853 Caverns.  Home Friend 2 525-527

Anon 1900 (numerous editions) Half Hours Underground ... 369, illus.  James Nisbet & Co, London 134 & illus 135 (Shaw 121)

Anon ND [c 1950?] Oban, Official Guide.  136, 43 plate

Anon 1950 Scottish Daily Express, Glasgow 18th April

Anon 1951 The Colonnades of Staffa  70 ff, illus Oct 13

Anon 1951 Staffa.  Scots Mag NS LIV [54]  5 Feb 394-399 illus.

Anon 1965 The Island of Staffa and Fingal's Cave.  Hunting Group Review (2) 23-24.  A description of the cave and historical notes.

Anon  1972 US Author may buy Fingal's Cave Island.  Time 28th Feb

Anon 1972 American bids to buy Staffa.  Scottish Sunday Express 19th Feb

Anon 1972 Bid for Staffa denied.  Guardian 28th Feb

Anon 1972 Staffa deal denied on both sides.  Scotsman 28th Feb

Anon 1972 The Fingal's Cave Saga.  [sale of Staffa] BC 59 80

Anon 1972 Sea Cave Wonders of the World.  Peshchery (12-13) 192

Anon 1990 Staffa - a lost opportunity?  Earth science conservation (28) September 26 photo.

Anon, 1994  Descent 116 33

Anon 2001 Land Lines - An illustrated journey through the landscape and literature of Scotland.  The Scottish Literary Tour Company Ltd.   119

Anon 2005 Fatalities at Fingals.  Descent (183) 28 April/May.

Badin, Adolphe, 1870 Grottes et Caverns 328 & iv, 55 figs.  Paris 2nd ed. 159-163, illus.  Hatchette & Cie

Badin, Adolphe, 1876 3rd ed. Grottes et Caverns 362 & iv,  175-181, illus.  [cf Davenport Adams]

Ballingall, William 1874  Scenes of Scottish Story.  Edmonston & Douglas, Edinburgh. 88 pp illus.  £80.00 Book Barne, 8.7.06  55 Fingal's Cave / Nature herself it seemed would raise a minister to her maker's praise.  [engraving 4" x 3" drawn & Engr Wm Ballingall - looking out - a sailing boat in the entrance.  scale exaggerated, boat v small, cave v big.]  55 Fingal's Cave by Scott and 56 Fingal's Cave by Wordsworth.

Bauer, Ernst, 1971 The Mysterious World of Caves.  129, illus.  Collins, London & Franklin Watts, New York.  71, 120

Bauer, Ernst 1971 Höhlen Welt ohne Sonne.  128, illus.  Union Verlag, Stuttgart et al 72.  See also editions in other languages.

Baumgartner, Alexander.  1895   Reisebilder aus Schottland. 2nd. improved edition. Freiburg i.B., Herder, 1895. XII, 1 Bl. 325 S., 3 Bl. (Verl.Anz.). With colour frontis, 19 xylogr. Abb. auf Tafeln und 23 Abb. im Text.  Aus dem Inhalt: Von Stonhurst nach Glasgow. Iona. Staffa.

BC 59 80 Fingal's for sale; 60 35; 62 75-78; 64 2

Beaumont  illus opp 97, 135, 173-175

Bell, J H B, et al 1944 British Hills and Mountains.  illus opp 40 (Shaw 106)

Bigland 2 32-33

Birlinn 1998  255-268, 6 plates.  Account of Staffa by Joseph Banks Esq.

Blacks  450-451

Black's 1873 478-480 illus

Blunt, W 1974 On the Wings of a Song - A biography of Felix Mendelssohn.  Hamish Hamilton, London 107 wood engraving.

Bolton, G. Douglas; [1953] Scotland's Western Seaboard, Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd,  First edition 8vo [21.5 x 16.5 cm]; xvi, 176 pp, 84 illus from photos, plates and maps, index. Original cloth, this copy with a contemporary foldout illustrated pamphlet on The Sacred Isle Tour, Oban to Staffa and Iona, covering an area similar to part of the book. The author's travels in this area include Carlisle, Porpatrick, Greenock, Dunoon, Coal, Bute, Arran, Kintyre, Knapdale, Oban, Loch Awe, Glencoe, Nether Lorne, Corrievreckan, Mull, Staffa, Iona, Oban, Appin, Morven, Moidart, Fort William, Kyle of Lochalsh, Isle of Skye, Loch Alsh, Loch Torridon, Loch Maree, Ullapool, Unapool, Kylesku, Kinlochbervie, Cape Wrath. The photographic table gives the camera settings of each photo.

Botfield, Beriah 1830 Journal of a Tour through the Highlands of Scotland during the Summer of 1829.  North Hall.  376 pp 23 Appendix. [Book dealer's catalogue 15.8.04 £100]

Bowman, The book includes 3 engravings by the author:  Entrance of Fingal's Cave 108; Bending Pillars, Staffa 114; View of Staffa from the south-west 120. 107-115, 121 lengthy descriptions of the caves.

Boyd, J M, & Boyd, I L, 1996 The Hebrides - A Habitable Land? 124 pp, illus, maps etc.  Description of Staffa, (103) which is owned the National Trust and is an SSSI, and the photo of Fingal's Cave (94).  SB

Bref, Rörande.  1777 Reisen und Ansichtenwerke Troil, Uno von. en Resa tal Island. Upsala, Swederus. "8°. gest. Titel m. Titelkupfer, 20 (2), 376 S., 1 Bl. Mit 1 mehrf. gefalt. Kupferkarte, 12 (11 gefalt.) Kupfertaf.; zusätzlich die Darstellung der Insel v. Titelbl. v. d. ersten Kapitel montiert. Marmor. Erste Ausgabe. - Chavanne 2176. Fiske 609. - Joseph Banks bereiste 1772 mit Solander u. Troil Island u. d. Basaltinsel Staffa, die er als erster wissenschaftlich beschrieb

Bridges, T C, 1937 Adventures Under Ground.  212, illus.  T Nelson & Sons, London 49

Brison, David.  1997 juin.  Les Grottes dans la Musique et la Chanson Enregistrèes, in: Grottes & Gouffres,  (144), S.19

British Museum, King's Top. Coll XLIX, 39a  Drawing in Indian Ink by Antonio de Bittio (Shaw 88)

Brooks, John, 1984 Welcome to the Isles of Mull, Iona, Staffa  32 pp, about one colour photo a page.  Nicely produced guide book to Staffa with photos and descriptions of Fingal's Cave etc.  SB

Brooks, J A, 1998 Mull Iona & Staffa 32 pp colour illus.  The only book in print that describes Fingal's Cave.  SB

Brown, R, (ed) 1887 Our Earth and its Story.  93, fig 48

Brown, Hamish 1999 To Fingal's isle / Hamish Brown visits the little known island of Staffa.  The Countryman Feb 5-March 25 104 (1) 15-19, illus.

Campbell, Barbara 1994  Mulling around.  The Countryman 99 (3) 39-44

Chapman, Philip 1993 Caves and Cave Life.  New Naturalist Series No 79.  13

Charnley, Bob 1994 Iona and Staff via Oban 1994  96 pp, over 130 illus.  The Staffa section pp 76-95 has quite a few photos of Fingal's Cave, many new to me.  Also advertised is a label on a whisky bottle showing Fingal's Cave, another must have, [glug, glug].  SB  Clan Books, Perthshire.

Clarke, Rev C C, 1825 The Hundred Wonders of the World ... 18th ed.  G B Whittaker, London 121-124, illus

Cooper, Derek, 1979 Road to the Isles / Travellers in the Hebrides 1770-1914.  198, 29 figs, 8 plates, biblio, index.  Routledge Kegan Paul, London.  25-26, 53-54, 64, 86, 100, + engravings on front and rear ep.

Cope see Whitehouse

Crae, John 2006  Ossianic Endeavours / Exploring caves on Staffa.  GSG Ser 4 2 (5) 38-51 S.   Very detailed report.

Crae, John, Updating Ossian.  GSG Ser 4 3 (2) 43-52, photos, S.

CRG Trans 3 (2) 109

CSS 4 (12) 194

Cullingford 1962  20

Daniell, William, 1818  Illustrations of the Island of Staffa (a series of 9 aquatints) Longmans, London

Daniell, William, 1818  A voyage round Great Britain ...; 3 Longmans, London

Daniell, William and Ayton, Richard 1977 A Voyage around Great Britain.  London: Tate Gallery Publications Dept 2 volumes.

Davenport Adam, W H, 1876 Beneath the Surface or, the Wonders of the Underworld.  x & 560.  T Nelson & Sons, London.  241-246, illus.  reprinted BC 32 20

Davenport Adams, W H, 1890 Famous Caverns and Grottoes.  xii & 185 & ii, 40 illus. T Nelson & Sons, London.  9-15

Dawkins, William Boyd, 1874 Cave Hu