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caused by the rapidly rising sea-bed, which can be observed whenever a southerly gale hits the Out Skerries.At this point, the break- up of the ship was accelerated, and a large part of its contents fell into the gullies below. However, the ship evidently remained suf- ficiently coherent to support cannon 7 and 8 as far as Trolsome. It is difficult to say how it fared beyond that point, since anything which reached the harbour area is likely to have been salvaged soon afterwards by the islanders. Such a reconstruction can only be
tentative, but it seems to be justifiable to make the attempt to sketch its outlines in a case such as this, where the evidence from different sources all falls together so well.
Having suggested an interpretation on these lines, a problem is posed concerning cannon 1 and 2, located in 1971 on the south- eastern side of Old Man’s Stack, and thus well away from the rest of the material. These cannon are very different from the others (Forster & Higgs, 1973:294), and it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that they are not from
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Figure 3. The South Mouth, Out Skerries.
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