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Loch Slitear Stornoway (parish) Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Sketches and notes on Clach a Fhradraic, 17 October 1873

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/80
Scope and Contents

Sketches and notes on 'Clach a Fhradraic on Beinne-na Sibhinn close to Loch Slitir on Tolastadh fo Thua' [Beinn Àirigh na Sibhinn/Beinn Airigh na Sivin, Tolstadh Bho Thuath, Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis]. The sketches show the rock from east north east and west south west and gives measurements of each side. It is described as gneiss resting on a 'flatish rock', and capable of moving about an inch at each end, and ship like. Some of the text is illegible.

Dates: 17 October 1873
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael