Field Visit
Date May 1983
Event ID 1147168
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1147168
Bloodstone Hill NG 315 007 NG30SW 3
Although the primary outcrop of bloodstone occurs on the precipitous N slopes of Creag nam Stardean (Bloodstone Hill), fragments of bloodstone form a significant fraction of the beach pebbles in Guirdil Bay. Secondary deposits, such as this, may have been the principal source of supply for prehistoric man. The main outcrop was quarried commercially for a short period in the nineteenth century.
RCAHMS 1983, visited May 1983
(Ritchie, 1968, 117-21)
