Scottish caves with Pictish carvings

[Imperial Dave]

Scottish caves with 1,700 year old pictish carvings you have never heard of - Daily Record https://share.google/TyZiUR1ojkq4wUgwk

Hopefully of interest

[Jim Webster]

It was, I hadn't realised cave carvings were something Picts did.

[Imperial Dave]

Neither did I!

[tadamson]

https://scapetrust.org/picts-and-the-wemyss-caves/

Some extra information.  Excellent way to spend a day...........

[Keraunos]

Thanks for the link.  That is fascinating.

[Erpingham]

One wonders whether they carved on the cave walls when not gathered together and grooving with several species of small furry animals?

[Imperial Dave]

https://scapetrust.org/picts-and-the-wemyss-caves/

Some extra information.  Excellent way to spend a day...........

yes, great link. Love stuff like this

[Sharur]

Channel 4's much missed Time Team did an excavation at the Wemyss Caves, broadcast first in 2005, and which shows the Pictish cave carvings too. YouTube link to the full show.

[Imperial Dave]

Good spot and thanks for the link 

[Sharur]

A further follow-up to this, as while reading through "Picts: Scourge of Rome, Rulers of the North" yesterday (I'm about halfway through currently - probable Slingshot review to follow, as it's a good, modern introduction to the Picts, as currently understood), I came across mention of Wemyss again (sadly, without any additional references to add here), but which also referred to Pictish symbols found in the Sculptor's Cave, Covesea, Moray. That did include a reference, and what joy today to discover it's available online, as a free PDF downloadable 321-page ebook!

The text is "Darkness Visible: The Sculptor's Cave, Covesea, from the Bronze Age to the Picts", edited by Ian Armit and Lindsey Büster, published by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 2022 (although "Picts" gives 2020, which may be the hard-copy version). You can find the free PDF link here. It's a full archaeological report, and there's a lot of detail there, including masses of images and diagrams.

[Imperial Dave]

Great thanks for the link

[Sharur]

Two more...

"The Pictish Symbol Stones of Scotland" (Historic Environment Scotland, by Iain Fraser (editor) & John Borland (illustrator), 2008) is referred to by "Picts: Scourge of Rome, Rulers of the North" as a frequent source in its chapter on the Pictish symbols late in the book, from which are two more caves with a single symbol in each, at Caiplie and Clashach Cove in Moray, aside from those at Wemyss and Covesea already noted here.

The Symbol Stones book contains illustrations of all known Pictish symbol stones (up to 2008), without interpretive work. Sadly though, the book is not currently in print, and there seems to be no ebook version available either.

[Imperial Dave]

Thank you once more 

[Sharur]

One last link from that "Picts" book (which I've almost finished now), the website for the Save Wemyss Ancient Caves Society, https://wemysscaves.org/.

This in turn, if you dig around on it, will bring you to a link for the Wemyss 4D website, where you can take a virtual tour of the 3D-scanned caves themselves: https://4dwemysscaves.org/ . The "4D" comes from the fact the site traces through the history of the caves as well. I'd definitely recommend spending some time exploring the caves this way, if Pictish symbols, et al., are your things!

[Imperial Dave]

That is really up my street....now if you can link it into VR....