Gossip Art & Soul, BBC Two Scotland
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Monday 15 January 2007, 9pm
An ancient Scottish temple cave – dedicated to the child-dead - has been "brought to life" for new BBC Scotland series Art & Soul, starting on Monday 15 January 2007.
According to archaeologist Ian Shepherd, 3,000 years ago, people from across the North of Scotland, the islands and possibly even Ireland, may have brought their dead children to Sculptor's Cave, near Lossiemouth, Moray.
His excavations have led him to believe not only was the cave dedicated to children, but ancient people placed some of the heads of their beloved infants on poles at the doorway.
Ian Shepherd says: "The graphics in the BBC's Art & Soul series are, as far as I know, the first time modern eyes will have seen a depiction of the cave as it would have been 3,000 years ago."
The graphics for BBC Scotland show the opening of the cave – with the indicators of its religious significance, the severed heads of dead children – and into its dark interior to a sacred pool strewn with Bronze age treasures.
