Cromartie Monument

I had to pop in to Dingwall town to pass on a few more Gumtree bits and thought I would blip something that has always intrigued me. This is the Cromartie monument which is bang in the middle of the, aptly named, Cromartie monument car park. Bizarrely they built the car park around the monument. There are even car park spaces around the base in a circle. They must have been really desperate for a car park to build around it.

We got our home report from yesterday through. Clean bill of health for the house and we are so pleased with the quick turnaround. A couple of tweaks to the schedule means that hopefully we should be ready to go 'live' at the start of next week! Exciting!

A bit more background to the monument....

Around 1710, Sir George Mackenzie the first Earl of Cromartie erected a large obelisk on the top of the thing mound. After his death in 1714 he was buried beside it, an act which has ensured the survival of the mound today. By 1917 the monument had begun to lean so dangerously it had to be removed, and in 1923 was replaced by the smaller structure we see today. In 1947 much of the mound was levelled to make way for a car park. Only the central part containing the burial place of the Earl now remains.