Scheduled Monument: Rubha nan Sidhean,cupmarked rocks and fish trap,Kirkibost (5410)

The monument consists of a series of cup-shaped carvings on rocks just below high water mark and a drystone built fish-trap, also lying mainly below high water mark. The cupmarks, 8 in number, range from 9cm to 16cm in diameter and 2cm to 8cm deep. They are distributed over a distance of 3.75m on an E- facing rock face just below high water mark of spring tides. A short stretch of rubble walling allows access at all but the highest tides. To the W, the small inlet is cut off by a rubble wall over 20m long, which is a simple but effective tidal fish trap, of considerable age although regularly repaired until recently. There is probaly no link bewteen the two elements in terms of date, but their neighbouring location argues for a joint scheduling. The area to be scheduled is irregular, consisting of a zone between high and low water mark of spring tides plus the S end of the promontory, Rubha nan Sidhean, to include the cupmarked rock, the short access causeway and the fish trap.