CAVE BURIAL

Gazetteer of Caves, Fissures and Rock Shelters in Britain Containing Human Remains

Yellow Man Rockshelter

Also known as Rhodes Links Rock Shelter


Excavation

Before 1907.

Curation

National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (FC 236).

Burials

MNI: 1 (juvenile).

Finds

Bronze pin, pottery, animal bones.

Dates

PeriodReliability
Early MedievalStratigraphical context of human remains indeterminate

14C

-

Additional Notes

Site destroyed

North Berwick

East Lothian

Scotland

NGR: NT 5753 8557

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External References

National Monuments RecordNT58NE 8
Scottish Cave and Mine Database3432
RCAHMS Identification56634

Bibliography

Anon (1924) Donations to and purchases for the Museum and Library. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 58: 14.

Close-Brooks, J. (1977) Notes on Museum acquisitions 1972-74. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 106: 226.

Richardson, J.S. (1907) Notice of kitchen-midden deposits on North Berwick Law, and other antiquities in the vicinity of North Berwick; with a note on an undescribed sculptured stone, with symbols, in the island of Raasay. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 41: 428-430.

Article Author Graham Mullan