The cliffs are Old Red Sandstone, which Hugh Miller knew better than anyone, and a glint of mica or quartz in the rock catching a sunset might account for a light. His chapter gives it as a local legend without a natural explanation. The guardian hand is the traditional form of such stories: a treasure that vanishes if you mark it.
Folklore & legend
The Diamond Rock of the Sutors
Eastern cliffs of the South Sutor, Cromarty
Traditional; told by Miller in 1835
- Evidence
- Long-standing local tradition
- Access
- Access unrecorded
- Location
- 57.674, -4.017 (Parish-level only, treat as an area)
Sources: Hugh Miller, Scenes and Legends of the North of Scotland, Chapter IV, Macbeth, The Fions of Knock-Farril [public-domain]
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