Welcome to Stories of Scotland, a podcast which explores Scottish history and culture through adventures and investigations.

We interested in mining stories in every way that they can appear, from the marvellous landscapes and natural environments to songs and poetry.

My name is Annie and I'm an archivist and historian.

I'm Jenny and today I'm going to be a North Sea dolphin.

This week we are discovering the Cowsy Caves,

a beautiful series of caves on the Murray coast between Berghead and Lossiemouth.

Thank you. on the Murray Coast between Burghead and Lossiemouth. The Murray Coast is a gorgeous stretch of coast in the northeast Scotland, which faces into the North Sea.

The Firth is incredibly rich in marine life and has a large population of my brethren, the Bottlenose Dolphin.

You can make your dolphin noise if you want.

Yes.

A visit to the Corsley Caves was one of the main inspirations for both Jenny's dreadful dolphin

noise. Hey, it is average. Okay.

And for us to start this podcast, because we saw hundreds of years worth of carvings on the walls.

We were looking at these carvings and thought that for every mark, there must be a story. We were so

enthralled with all the caves along the Kaisi Network, and we just wanted to find out the tales of who else had been there before us.

We both got a bit over-enthusiastic with research in the caves after our visit, so we've got another two-part podcast for you.

This is the first part on the caves, and we're going to explore the natural history of Kosi.

Then we'll delve into the mystery of why so many

bronzes children's skulls were uncovered in the caves. From that we move to the Iron Age

and look at the earliest marks in the cave walls, Pictish carvings from 1400 years ago. In the second

episode, we'll take a time machine forward to the caves in the early modern period, where we meet

an infamous wizard,

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