Misty sea stacks and pebbled black sand on the Isle of Skye at dawn

An t-Eilean Sgitheanach · Mail order, est. 2024

A small stone,
a long story.

Pebbles hand-gathered from the wild beaches of the Isle of Skye — basalt born of fire, gneiss older than oxygen, jasper red as the bracken — wrapped in wool and posted to your doorstep.

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★ Talisker Bay★ Elgol★ Coral Beach★ Staffin★ Camasunary★ Neist Point★ Loch Slapin★ An Corran

№ 01 — The shop

Four stones, four shores, four billion years between them.

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№01

Talisker Basalt

£14

Talisker Bay · ≈ 60 million years

№02

Elgol Gneiss

£22

Elgol Beach · ≈ 2.7 billion years

№03

Staffin Jasper

£18

Staffin Bay · ≈ 170 million years

№04

Coral Beach Quartz

£16

An Dùnan, Claigan · ≈ 400 million years

№ 02 — A landscape that acts

Skye has stood in for Asgard, Cybertron, and the realm of Stormhold.

The Quiraing, the Old Man of Storr, the Fairy Pools — these places have played themselves in Stardust, fought immortals in Highlander, and rumbled through Transformers: The Last Knight. Long before the cameras came, the rocks were already the stars.

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№ 03 — Older than memory

Dinosaurs walked these tides.

At low tide on An Corran and Brothers' Point you can place your hand inside a sauropod's footprint, pressed into Middle Jurassic mudstone 170 million years ago. The stones we send you were, more often than not, sleeping just beside one.

◆Sauropod, theropod & ornithopod tracks across Trotternish
◆World-class Middle Jurassic exposures, rare on Earth
◆New trackways uncovered with every winter storm

A fossilised dinosaur footprint at low tide on Skye

By post, by hand

One stone, one beach,
one good morning's walk.

Each parcel is gathered, washed in rainwater, wrapped in Hebridean wool and posted with a hand-written note about the shore it came from.

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A small stone,a long story.