Jura, Uamh Righ
Cave (Period Unassigned), Cross Incised Rock (Early Medieval), Pin
Site Name Jura, Uamh Righ
Classification Cave (Period Unassigned), Cross Incised Rock (Early Medieval), Pin
Canmore ID 38281
Site Number NR58SW 1
NGR NR 5177 8246
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/38281
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Jura
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR58SW 1 5177 8246
Uamh Righ (name NR 5185 8744) was excavated in 1971 by Mercer. Known now as the "King's Cave" and alleged by some to be associated with Robert the Bruce, the name could well have meant "the Lord's Cave" in the early 17th century. Battered on to the walls are well over a hundred poorly-marked crosses,and the excavation revealed that the centre of the cave had been extensively levelled with flat slabs with, a little farther in, a small, separate patch of paving. Behind it, and below the most decorated wall, a broken bone pin, its head perhaps a stylised cross, was found. Catholic services are known to have been held by a Franciscan missionary in remote caves in these islands in 1629, during a period of persecution.
J Mercer 1974.
Uamh Righ, an occupied cave at NR 5177 8246, is as as described by Mercer.
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (N K B) 22 May 1978.
Note (1984)
Listed as occupied cave: Kings' Cave (NR 517 824); pottery, bone, flint and stone objects, cobbled areas, 100-150 incised crosses; GAJ 5 (1978), 44-70; Martin, Western Islands, 269.
RCAHMS 1984
