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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 698678
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/698678
NS19SW 3 140 946
Island at Dornoch Point. Tradition that Robert the Bruce was entertained on it, and adjacent farm is called 'Island Farm'.
Information from Miss E B Rennie, 1 April 1984.
NS 140 946 2.5km S of the N end of Loch Eck, and 50m offshore from Dornoch Point a small stone island was revealed in the summer drought.
This feature, although now usually visible only as a few stones and dead trees rising out of the water, was marked on the older maps as an actual island and named 'Eilean a' Chocaire'- (the island of cooking or of cooks).
Investigation by A & E Garner and E Rennie in the summer showed that it consists of a flat stony area measuring about 20m in diameter and dropping away steeply into deep water around the circumference.
The nearest farm which is within 500m is known as 'Island Farm'- suggesting a past importance of the island.
The surface of Loch Eck was raised in the 1970s.
E B Rennie 1995.
