Admiralty Boundary Stones.

It would seem that I am becoming fixated by these stones! I found these three marker posts in Cromarty on a street along the shore. There are four "stones" three have been used as a garden gate while the third is outside the Cromarty Courthouse Museum.

The "stones" are in fact made of concrete and bear the numbers 1, 5 and 6 in Roman numerals. Number 4 is outside the courthouse. All four of the stones probably date to WW1 and delineated the Navy property boundary around the harbour.

Compare this picture to the Ferry Toll stone

The No. V & VI stones

The other number I forget, It is holding up the gate!

Gaelic Chapel

The roofless ruin of a church built to provide services in Gaelic for the large number of workers that came to Cromarty looking for work in this once bustling town. A short distance away is a monument to Hugh Miller, a 17th stonemason, geologist, author, journalist and editor, who was born in Cromarty.

Gaelic Chapel