Editor's Note and Accompanying Snark (from informational signage): This may be the lost medieval village of Catboll Fisher in Easter Ross. There was a chapel on this site. The cross-slab was carved circa 800 CE and is known as the Hilton Stone.

Tradition says that suicide victims and unbaptised babies were buried here until the end of the 19th Century.

The stone isn't the original. Somebody carted that off to a museum. This is a full-sized replica. I feel that we are perfectly entitled to speculate freely on why they did this, from 'they wanted to charge money for it' to 'the locals stick kayaks in trees, among other things, and can't be trusted with antiquities.'

The bottom of this informative sign, in which they call the cross a 'plinth', is, I believe, revelatory as to the kind of people who put it up.

The piece de resistance is this sign, which turns the whole experience interactive – IF you've remembered to take your smartphone.

History as Pokémon hunt. Philip K Dick, thou shouldst be living with us now.

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