Archaeology Notes

Event ID 640924

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HP40SE 2 477 044.

HP 477 044. A very considerable turf or earth parapet is visible around the landware-facing edge of Aastack, an isolated rock stack. The headland opposite is cup off by the remains of two stone dykes, just E (ie landward) of which is a low, grass-grown cairn. The dykes run only a few yards from the cliff edge and do not enclose a significant area, unless it is imagined that they formed an outer boundary to the structure on the stack, which may have been joined to the mainland in antiquity.

This is a likely site for a monastic settlement.

Information from R G Lamb, Edinburgh University, 12 January 1972.