Skerrow Neck

The headland where the Northern Rampart's strike-line runs out of mainland and dives under the sea: the last dry stone before the skerry-chain crossing west to the Farshield.

A Stoneborn will walk you to the Neck's edge, put your hand flat on the last exposed course of Rampart granite, and tell you to feel where it keeps going under the water. It does: the same strike and dip continues out past sight, and nobody who has cut stone for a living needs the far shore in view to know the Farshield is the same rock risen again. The skerry-chain starts here: a scatter of stepping isles the Stonewright Moot has marked and re-marked for two generations, each one a night's anchorage or less between the Neck and Gallowgate Quay. Fishing camps and a weigh-station cluster where the road gives out, and every cairn along the chain has been rebuilt at least once, because the sea takes a marker as readily as it takes a ship.