Sculptors Cave

Nearest town:
Lossiemouth (6km E)
OS reference:
NJ17507072
OS sheet:
28
Latitude:
57° 43' 7.53 N
Longitude:
3° 23' 6.26 W
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Sculptors Cave

Old meets new as prehistoric cave is digitised

thelonious
thelonious Oct 2, 2017

“Archaeologists from Bradford have created a digital model of the iconic Sculptor’s Cave in Moray, Scotland.

The high resolution digital model not only demonstrates the size and layout of the cave but importantly highlights the Pictish (early medieval) symbols found on the walls that make the cave so fascinating.

The cave was also used as a focus for complex funerary rites and the deposition of precious objects in the Late Bronze Age/Iron Age.....”

bradford.ac.uk/news/2017/sculptors-cave-video.php

Nice walk through video on link.

Sculptors Cave

Sounds of the Bronze Age to be studied

thelonious
thelonious Jan 14, 2016

“A researcher at the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) hopes to gain an understanding of sounds heard thousands of years ago.

Michelle Walker’s investigation will involve a cave in Moray where human remains from the Late Bronze Age were previously found by archaeologists.

It is believed prehistoric people buried their dead in the cave in rituals involving beating a drum.

Ms Walker has proposed beating a drum in the same location.
The UHI graduate believes the acoustics of Sculptors Cave where the bodies were laid could have affected mourners’ mood....... ”

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-35316369

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Sculptors Cave
Cave / Rock Shelter
drewbhoy
drewbhoy Aug 28, 2009

Sculptors Cave.

“On the beach below, (Hopeman Golf Course), is a proper wonder. Access is tricky, a hazardous descent on steep slopes and bare rock; or a slippery scramble around headlands on the shore at low tide. But we feel that a little danger adds spice to our wonder. More than two thousand years ago, spiritual Celts sought out this gloomy cavern for a grizzly cult: a pagan veneration of the human head as a source, symbol and esoteric power. The cavern roof was hung with severed heads: criminals executed for unspeakable crimes; warrior heroes decapitated in battle; apostates beheaded in bloody auto da fe; wise forebears exhibited for their posterity’s veneration. And later Celtic people – Picts on the cusp of Christianity – came here to chisel their arcane symbols into the soft sandstone of the cave walls. We have to search to find the sculptures – small and rudely carved among a gallery of subsequent graffiti.”

John R. Barrett

Walks and Wonders – Knock News No. 30
August 09

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