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Story summary
- Scotland's archaeologists first excavated Raitts Cave in 1835, labeling it an earth shelter.
- The site is a man-made horseshoe passage lined with stone, not a natural cave.
- Dated to the late Iron Age (100-400 AD), it likely stored food for a roundhouse above.
- Legends claim giants built the cave, that giants were executed at its entrance, and Jacobites were burned inside.
