Where To Stream Time Team Season 12 Episode 8
Picts and Hermits Cave Dwellers of Fife - Wemyss, Fife
- Aired February 20, 2005
- 60 Min
- Rated 10.0
- Number 84 Of 221 Rated Episodes
Wemyss Caves, on the shore of the Firth of Forth, have been a famous landmark for centuries. Legend has it that they were occupied by the mysterious Pictish people who scared the Romans into building Hadrian's Wall; that subsequently they were home to medieval Christian hermits and later to Jacobean nobles. Now the caves are under serious threat from erosion; the sea is already lapping at the cliff just below the cave line. But Wemyss Caves have never been properly investigated. How did the...