Section 02
Stones
04 entries · The named ones.
Each entry here is one object, with its mass where a mass exists, the place it belongs to, and how well the story attached to it is documented. Some were fitted with iron for other work and inherited a second life. One is cast in a mould and can be reproduced exactly, which makes it the odd one out.
Everything filed under Stones
Complete for this section- The Dinnie StonesLong entryTwo granite blocks with iron rings, together roughly 332 kilograms, named for Donald Dinnie, who is said to have carried them across the bridge at Potarch in 1860 — a claim far better known than it is documented.
- The Húsafell StoneEntryAbout 186 kilograms of flat basalt, carried against the chest around a pen, with the lap as the unit.
- The Inver StoneShort entryA rounded granite lump on Deeside, awkward precisely because there is nothing to hold.
- The Atlas StonesShort entryModern, cast in moulds to fixed weights, and deliberately shaped to defeat a grip.