Saint Baldred’s Cave
Also known as Auldhame, Seacliff Cave
Excavation
G. Sligo, 1831; 1905.
Curation
National Museum of Scotland.
Burials
MNI: 2 (juveniles).
Finds
?Iron Age pottery, worked bone, animal bones.
Dates
| Period | Reliability |
|---|---|
| Iron Age | Stratigraphical context of human remains indeterminate |
14C
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External References
Bibliography
Jackson, J.W. (1962) Archaeology and Palaeontology. In Cullingford, C.H.D. (ed.) British Caving. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, pp. 252-346.
Jeffries, A.L. (2012) Seacliff Cave, Auldhame, East Lothian. Grampian Speleological Group Bulletin 4th ser. 5(3): 19-22.
Layard, A.F. (1933) Evidence of human sacrifice in Seacliff Cave, Scotland. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia 7: 399-401.
Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (1924) Eighth Report with Inventory of Monuments and Constructions in the County of East Lothian. RCAHMS, Edinburgh.
Sligo, G. (1857) Notes on an ancient cave, and etc., discovered at Aldham, now called Seacliff, in East Lothian, in 1831. Archaeologia Scot. 4: 353-361.
Article Author Graham Mullan