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Orkney Smr Note
Date July 1986
Event ID 619713
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Orkney Smr Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/619713
Moustack is a sea-girt, flat- topped and sheer sided stack,
14m high, in a cliffbound bay; the stack is an extension of the
narrow ridge, Riggan of Kami, and that site could be associated.
The summit measures some 55m NE-SW by 20m; on it can be seen a low
circular mound, perhaps about 10m in dia. and some 0.6m high. No
plan view is available and the angle of view from the adjacent
mainland clifftop, which is of equal elevation, is unfavourable.
Structures on the stack Dinnacair, near Stonehaven, which has
produced Pictish symbol stones, look similar, but the stack had
in fact been joined to Riggan of Kami at time of occupation, it
may be part of that Iron Age broch-type complex rather than a
hermitage as would be the interpretation had the structure been
built originally on a stack. [R1] [R2]
Information from Orkney SMR (RGL) June 86 OR1150
