Abstract
AN examination of the contents of a large cave at Southend, Kintyre, Argyllshire, by Mr. Hamilton Maxwell, on behalf of the Glasgow Arch ¦ological Society, has yielded in the course of digging through 10 ft. of deposit down to bed-rock a number of relics in bone, horn, bronze and iron, mostly belonging to the early iron age. According to a report in the Times of August 28, the object of the investigation was to ascertain the probable date of the erosion of the cave; and for this the date of about 4400 B.C. is now suggested. This conclusion is based upon a comparison with the Oban caves of Azilian date and the butt sites at Or nsay, explored by Messrs. Henderson, Bishop and Ludovic McL. Mann. The Oban caves have been taken as dating from about 13000 B.C. This gives, therefore, a dating for the Scottish levels of a raised beach at 27 ½ ft., 13000 B.C.; a sunken beach at a depth of 20 ft., about 8700 B.C.; a raised beach at 9 ½ ft., about 4400 B.C.; and a sunken beach at a depth of about 7 ft. at about 100 B.C.
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