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The work is cut in outline to the shape of the Cromarty headland, with the text of an 1854 quote from Hugh Miller's autobiography 'My Schools and Schoolmasters' beginning '...I HAD TO BUILD THEM UP / PLATE BY PLATE'. It is cut between areas of carved waving lines, representing Cromarty Bay, or Lake Orkadie which the area formed part of 350 million years ago. The figure of a fossil fish, Pterichthyodes milleri, is in higher relief to the lower right.
National Trust for Scotland, Hugh Miller Museum & Birthplace Cottage
Cromarty
Title
Cromarty Puzzle Sculpture
Date
2000–2010
Medium
Portland stone
Measurements
H 48.5 x W 48.5 x D 6 cm
Accession number
2018.5670
Work type
Sculpture
Signature/marks description
carved signature below: N. KIDD
National Trust for Scotland, Hugh Miller Museum & Birthplace Cottage
Church Street, Cromarty, Highland IV11 8XA Scotland
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