Back Berry Cave - Scottish Cave and Mine Database Site Details

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Back Berry Cave

NGR:	ND 36177 77965
WGS84:	58.68474, -3.10256
Length:	Not recorded
Vert. Range:	Not recorded
Altitude:	Not recorded
Geology:	Upper Stromness Flagstone Formation - Siltstone, Mudstone And Sandstone
Tags:	Cave, SeaCave, Archaeo
Registry:	second

Cave marked on OS maps southwest of Back Berry point at the inland end of an un-named geo between Finnies Haven and Narrow Geo immediately to the northwest and Back Berry point to the northeast.

Notes: Finnies Haven (to the northwest) is possibly the nearest landing point to a cave at ND361779 (Back Berry Cave), but even if it is, it is not closely associated. The archaeological features mentioned by Mowat (but not recorded on Canmore) could indeed have provided the motivation for the name. Alternatively, the specific may be the genitive of ON masc. anthro. Finnr. [Morgan]

Links and Resources:

Waugh, Doreen Jennifer, 1985, The Place-Names of Six Parishes in Caithness, Scotland.
Morgan, Ailig Peadar, 2013, Ethnonyms in the Place-names of Scotland and the Border Counties of England, PhD Thesis, University of St Andrews. research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/10023/4164/AiligMorganPhDThesis_AppendixD.p.... It is believed Finnies is a corruption of Finn's Ness.
6" OS map, Caithness III.1 (Canisbay). maps.nls.uk/view/220341698.
Mowat, R.B. 1931, A History of Great Britain 1588 - 1924, p. 37.

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