SHANDWICK, a village, in the parish of Nigg,
county of Ross-and-Cromarty, 4^ miles (N. E.) from
the village of Nigg; containing 192 inhabitants. It is
a small place in the north-eastern part of the parish,
and on the eastern shore ot the county. Near the village
is a large stone or obelisk, called in Gaelic Clacli a
ChaTriilli," the stone of the burial-ground"; in height
it is eight feet, in breadth Ibnr, and in thickness one, and
it is of great antiquity. According to tradition, it commemorates
a shipwreck of Danes upon the coast, in
which three sons of the king of Denmark perished, and
were buried on this spot. For ages the ground around
was used for sepulture, but it has not been so employed
for the last sixty or seventy years.