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Field Visit
Date April 1996 - May 1996
Event ID 1007714
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1007714
To the east of the public road and to the immediate north of the Duke of Argyll's Monument is a ridge, 8.0m wide, running for 52.0 m. This ridge has a level, 2.0m broad, top and a drop of 0.75m to the east and up to 0.5m to the west. The ridge may be artificial but its location 5.0m back from the edge of the raised beach may suggest that it is an element of that feature.
Known as Iomaire nan Achd ('the statute ridge') it is purported to be the place where Andrew Knox set up court for the assent by nine Gaelic chiefs to the Statutes of Icolmkill in 1609 AD.
(ION96 016)
Information from NTS (SCS) January 2016
