Sliding cave

Also called Sloping Cave.

Contains 3 Pictish carvings.

We know that people were using this cave over 1500 years ago because a trampled surface about 1m below the present cave floor has been dated to 240-400AD. Were these people the carvers of the Pictish symbols?

W4D-SC-001

W4D-SC-001
Double disc


W4D-SC-002

W4D-SC-002
Rectangle with double disc


Sliding Cave carvings illustrated by Andrew Gibb.
From John Stuart, The Sculptured Stones of Scotland, 1867.


Rubbing of double disc in Sliding Cave, J. Romilly Allen c. 1890.
© The British Library Board (37573)


Rubbing of rectangles in Sliding Cave, J. Romilly Allen c. 1890.
© The British Library Board (37573)