St_Ninian's_Cave

St Ninian's Cave

St Ninian's Cave

Scottish cave

54.6938°N 4.4498°W / 54.6938; -4.4498

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St Ninian's Cave is a cave in Physgill Glen, Whithorn, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.[1][2] It features in the climax of the acclaimed 1973 horror film The Wicker Man.[3][4] It is a place of Roman Catholic pilgrimage by way of its association with the Scottish saint Ninian.

Excavations in the cave in the 1880s and the 1950s uncovered a collection of early medieval carved stones. There were 18 in total, most of them built into a post-medieval wall, others lying loose in the cave's interior or at its mouth.[5]

Rockfalls near the entrance have diminished the size of the cave over time, as seen at right.

References

  1. [1]
    "St Ninian's Cave". www.historicenvironment.scot.
  2. [2]
    Stell, Geoffrey (1996). Dumfries and Galloway. Stationery Office. p. 160. ISBN 978-0-11-495294-5.
  3. [3]
    Bruce, David (1996). Scotland the Movie. Edinburgh: Polygon. ISBN 074866209X.
  4. [4]
    Winn, Christopher (2012). I Never Knew That About Scotland. Random House. p. 253. ISBN 978-1-4481-4608-6.
  5. [5]
    "St Ninian's Cave: History". www.historicenvironment.scot. Retrieved 1 March 2021.

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