Hugh Miller was born and lived in Cromarty.His house and birth place are open to the public. He was a stonemason, the local stone is sandstone, so he became a collector of fossils and became a geologist and wrote a great number of books, among them those about the geology of the Scottish coastline – seems to have been a contemporary of Falconer (Forres).
Modern layout of the back garden of Hugh Miller’s house, his birthplace is the thatched cottage.
Hugh Miller’s carving
Hugh Miller scalloped this gravestone, which is the gravestone of his first child
Commonwealth gravestones in one of Cromarty’s graveyards
Gravestones of seamen pre 1stWorld War – I’ve never seen this design before and there were several of them
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