The Dog stone stands in a field in front of a cliff line about 20ft above sea level. It is an undercut, raised sea stack. Its name derives from a legend that this is where the giant, Fingal, tied up his dog, Bran, when he went hunting in the Hebrides. The significance of it was only appreciated by Geologist Hugh Miller in 1857 as evidence that the shore line rose out the water after the weight of ice receeded after the last ice age.
