Skye, 'the Water Horse's Grave', Osdale
Standing Stone (Prehistoric)(Possible)
Site Name Skye, 'the Water Horse's Grave', Osdale
Classification Standing Stone (Prehistoric)(Possible)
Canmore ID 10837
Site Number NG24NW 9
NGR NG 242 460
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/10837
- Council Highland
- Parish Duirinish
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
NG24NW 9 242 460.
The Water Horse's Grave, Osdale. On a flat shelf once under cultivation on the E slope of Dun Clach, abouut 400 yards NNW of Osdale Croft, is a fallen monolith. Itis a rough four-sided prism and entirely different from the other blocks of stone in the neighbourhood. It measures 7ft in length, 16-20ins in thickness, and at least 20ins broad. Probably a Standing Stone.
RCAHMS 1928.
NG 242 460. A recumbent stone, as described above, except that it measures 2.0m in length. It lies under a dyke enclosing an area of lazy-beds.
Visited by OS (A S P) 14 May 1961.
OS 1:10,560 map (1968 ed.) notes 'Stone' at NG 2423 4597
Field Visit (12 May 1915)
Standing Stone (probable), The Water Horse's Grave, Osdale.
On a flat shelf once under cultivation on the eastern slope of Dun Chlach, about 400 yards north-north-west of Osdale croft; is a fallen monolith, possibly once set up as a standing stone. It is a rough four-sided prism and entirely different from the blocks of stone in the neighbourhood. It measures 7 feet in length, 16 to 20 inches in thickness, and is at least 18 inches broad. According to a local tradition a water horse, which was killed by a ploughman with a red-hot plough coulter, is buried here.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 12 May 1915.
OS map: Skye xxi (unnoted).
