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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 713500
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/713500
NT39SW 22 30323 93001
Cave of Dysart [NAT]
(name repeated, centred at NT 30308 93006 and NT 30340 92992)
OS (GIS) MasterMap, November 2009.
St Serf had a retreat at Dysart, and the largest cave there still bears his name. It was a place of pilgrimage in the 16th century. No Christian symbols now remain on any of the caves at Dysart.
(Two adjacent caves shown on OS 1:1250 map, 1972.)
J Anderson 1881; A H Millar 1895.
