Featured Row – Groat’s Loch, South

Groat’s Loch, South is a single stone row in Caithness measuring 22m long, including at least 4 small and medium-sized stones situated in a small confined valley on the lower slopes of Warehouse Hill. The row is orientated NNE to SSW. Single rows are unusual in Northern Scotland.  The row forms part of a cluster including at least 9 stone rows near Loch Watenan and has definable visual links with the sea, nearby cairns, chambered cairns and stone rows.

Plan of Groat’s Loch, South stone row (Source: Survey by Sandy Gerrard at 1:200).