Monument record MHG29918 - Cromarty, fish trap

Remains of a large fish trap. This caught fish at ebb tide, with a long (50 plus) leader of wooden stakes running west, at an angle to the shore, directing the fish towards the shore; then into a V-shaped channel between closely set stakes; and finally into what seem to be a series of roughly circular cages (perhaps formed by wattle between the stakes?). Could be earlier - traps are recorded in the Firth in the seventeenth century and this one seems to me to have worked without nets. The more common dogleg-shaped 'yair' would not have worked at this point, since there is not enough exposed shore at low tide.
Information from David Alston/Cromarty Courthouse, date 23//09/97.
See assoc. docs. File.
J Aitken : 25/04/01.

Also at this location are the remains of the Osterhav, a Finnish freighter which was beached at Cromarty so as to be broken up in 1938.
See assoc. docs. File.
J Aitken : 24/04/01.