Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'St Kilda' has mentioned 'Stone' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| The islands house a unique form of stone structure known as cleitean. | WIKI |
| A cleit is a stone storage hut or bothy; while many still exist, they are slowly falling into disrepair. | WIKI |
| The subsequent discovery of a quarry for stone tools on Mullach Sgar above Village Bay led to finds of numerous stone hoe-blades, grinders and Skaill knives[note 4] in the Village Bay cleitean, unique stone storage buildings (see below). | WIKI |
| [67] An excavation of the Taigh an t-Sithiche (the "house of the faeries" xe2x80x93 see below) in 1877 by Sands unearthed the remains of gannet, sheep, cattle and limpets amidst various stone tools. | WIKI |
| An important island tradition involved the 'Mistress Stone', a door-shaped opening in the rocks north-west of Ruival over-hanging a gully. | WIKI |
| The Mistress Stone | WIKI |
| In the face of the rock, south from the town, is the famous stone, known by the name of the mistress-stone; it resembles a door exactly; and is in the very front of this rock, which is twenty or thirty fathom [120 to 180 feet (37 to 55xc2xa0m)] perpendicular in height, the figure of it being discernible about the distance of a mile; upon the lintel of this door, every bachelor-wooer is by an ancient custom obliged in honour to give a specimen of his affection for the love of his mistress, and it is thus; he is to stand on his left foot, having the one half of his sole over the rock, and then he draws the right foot further out to the left, and in this posture bowing, he puts both his fists further out to the right foot; and then after he has performed this, he has acquired no small reputation, being always after it accounted worthy of the finest mistress in the world: they firmly believe that this achievement is always attended with the desired success.This being the custom of the place, one of the inhabitants very gravely desired me to let him know the time limited by me for trying of this piece of gallantry before I designxe2x80x99d to leave the place, that he might attend me; I told him this performance would have a quite contrary effect upon me, by robbing me both of my life and mistress at the same moment. | WIKI |
| Large sheepfolds lie inland from the existing village at An Lag Bho'n Tuath (English: the hollow in the north) and contain curious 'boat-shaped' stone rings, or 'settings'. | WIKI |
| This Amazon is famous in their traditions: her house or dairy of stone is yet extant; some of the inhabitants dwell in it all summer, though it be some hundred years old; the whole is built of stone, without any wood, lime, earth, or mortar to cement it, and is built in form of a circle pyramid-wise towards the top, having a vent in it, the fire being always in the centre of the floor; the stones are long and thin, which supplies the defect of wood; the body of this house contains not above nine persons sitting; there are three beds or low vaults that go off the side of the wall, a pillar betwixt each bed, which contains five men apiece; at the entry to one of these low vaults is a stone standing upon one end fixxe2x80x99d; upon this they say she ordinarily laid her helmet; there are two stones on the other side, upon which she is reported to have laid her sword: she is said to have been much addicted to hunting, and that in her time all the space betwixt this isle and that of Harries, was one continued tract of dry land. | WIKI |
| 16 in the modern village has an early Christian stone cross built into the front wall, which may date from the 7th century. | WIKI |
| Most were blackhouses of typical Hebridean design, but some older buildings were made of corbelled stone and turfed rather than thatched. | WIKI |
| This is little more than an excavated hole under a massive stone with two crude walls on the sides. | WIKI |