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Raitts Cave

Near Kingussie, Badenoch

An underground passage where thieves hid, said legend.

Raitts Cave is an Iron Age souterrain, an underground stone passage probably used for storing food. Legend says a band of thieves hid here, with the entrance concealed under the floor of a house, until they were discovered and the cave revealed.

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When
Iron Age
Where
57.0930, -4.0090
Group
Caves & grottoes

Visiting

In woodland near Lynchat. Take a torch and care.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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