Field Visit
Date 2008
Event ID 1116770
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1116770
Originally identified by Miss J Booth as a possibly artificially shaped stone in 1978, this large granite block was not identified in 1980 by the Ordnance Survey, who, instead, noted a nearby boulder that had been exposed by erosion. The irregular shape and the ragged edge of Miss Booth’s boulder is the result of large fragments of it having been prized off using wedges. The stone is the most obvious example of several quarried blocks in the vicinity, which were most likely worked when the original slipway and store house (NC27SE 4) were built in 1827 or when the slipway was rebuilt in 1863.
(CWTC08 432)
Visited by RCAHMS (AL, IP), 7 August 2008.
