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Stack Of Mustack
Stack Site (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Stack Of Mustack
Classification Stack Site (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Stack Of Moustag
Canmore ID 2942
Site Number HY50NE 28
NGR HY 5926 0743
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/2942
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish St Andrews And Deerness
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY50NE 28 5926 0743.
There appear to have been structures on this stack.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 4 June 1930.
The feature on this stack is a circular grass-grown mound c. 10.0m in diameter and 0.6m high. Its surface is eroded in several places and two or three upright slabs apparently of an artificial structure can be seen, probably of a domestic structure rather than a cairn.
Visited by OS, 30 August 1964 and 21 May 1973.
Orkney Smr Note (July 1986)
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
