Peden's Cave - Scottish Cave and Mine Database Site Details

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Peden's Cave

NGR:	NS 42590 32550
WGS84:	55.56114, -4.49746
Length:	Not recorded
Vert. Range:	Not recorded
Altitude:	Not recorded
Geology:	Not recorded
Tags:	Cave
Registry:	second

Peden's Cave at Craigie [NS 4259/3255], when last seen consisted of two inclined boulders forming an entirely fortuitous shelter. The steeply sloping site at Craigie is now covered in dense gorse. A site at Camp Castle to the northeast is described either as a dun or a broch and a site to the east appears to be a hill fort.

Notes: This cave is marked on the 2 ½" O.S. sheet approximately 1 mile South of Kilmarnock.

Links and Resources:

Jim Salvona's Notebooks, 1984-1994, vol. 2, p. 41. Jim's notes suggest they did not find the 'cave' but the later GSG Logbook entry suggests they did but did not recognize the boulders as a 'cave'. Possibly the description had been confused with the larger Peden's Cave at Auchinbay (site 2779).
GSG Logbook, 23 Feb. 1985.
Site 2779: Peden's Cave, Auchinbay - Link

This entry was last updated: 2025-06-04 11:03:40

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