The stretch of low cliffs east of Kirkcaldy is riddled with shallow caves formed after the end of the last Ice Age when the land, relieved of the crushing weight of ice a mile thick, rose several scores of feet and exposed this friable rock to waves and weathering. People on the lookout for safe places to shelter soon began to inhabit the caves, and it must have been shortly after they took up residence that they began to cut pictures into the walls…. The earliest decipherable today could date back 5,000 years .. most were probably made in the time of the Picts