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Constantine's Cave Description of stone
Event ID 1027627
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1027627
Constantine’s Cave, Fife Ness, Fife, rock carvings
Measurements:
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 6327 1009
Present location: in situ.
Evidence for discovery: first recorded in 1867. The cave was excavated in 1914, yielding finds of Roman date.
Present condition: fair.
Description
Stuart recorded 35 incised linear crosses on the walls of the cave, all of simple type apart from one on which a line links the side and upper arms. There are also two incised animals, but Stuart’s drawing and that of Wace and Jehu are entirely different and the latter is probably the more accurate.
Date: early medieval.
References: Stuart 1867, pl 29; Wace & Jehu 1915, 237-44.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
