Name: | Blackwaterfoot | CISP No: | BLFOO |
Place: | Blackwaterfoot | Grid Ref: | NR 8800 3000 (GB) |
Parish: | Kilmory | Stones: | 3 |
County: | Arran , Scotland | Saint(s): | none |
Site Type: | landscape setting |
Forsyth/1996, 93: `...the largest of a string of caves in the sandstone cliffs about 3 km north of Blackwaterfoot'.
Fisher/2001, 65: `The 'King's Cave' is the largest of a group of caves in the W-facing sandstone cliff immediately above the rocky shore of Kilbrannan Sound. It is situated at the foot of the W slope of Torr Righ Mór ('big hillock of the king') and 1.6km N of the hill-fort of Drumadoon. ... A smaller cave some 80m to the S, reached from the mouth of the main cave by a natural tunnel known as the 'King's Stable', also contains an interlace carving. .. The earlier carvings [in The King's Cave] comprise crosses, human figures, interlaced snakes and ogham inscriptions, all of probable early medieval date'.