Old travel Blog photograph of women on a coastal walk visiting the King's Cave by Blackwaterfoot, Island of Arran, Scotland. King's Cave is one of several locations in which Robert the Bruce is said to have had his famed encounter with a spider. The King's Cave is one of several in a sandstone cliff. It is large and irregular, about 120 by 30 fee. Towards the East end it is divided by a buttress of rock facing the cave, behind which it contracts to a point. The narrow part of the cave thus consists of two passages of aisles, separated by the buttress of rock. On the side of the buttress, at the entrance of the North " aisle ", is a row of small holes cut in the stone in a sloping line, and on both sides, towards the point, is a row of similar holes, suggesting they may have been the sockets of small bars of wood. Similar holes occur in the other " aisle " at the same height, and at the outside of the cave, on the South side, is a row of larger holes, running towards the roof, without corresponding holes on the opposite side. There are figures of horses in the South " aisle " pretty far in; and on the wall of that side of the cave, opposite to the buttress, are deer and concentric circles cup and ring marks.
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