Oronsay, Inner Hebrides

Oronsay ( Scottish Gaelic: Orasaigh ) is a small tidal island just south of Colonsay, which belongs to the Scottish Inner Hebrides. With Colonsay it is connected via a dirt embankment, which can be used only at low water, then transfer the watts.

Oronsay is 5.4 square kilometers in size. The highest point is 93 meters high. 2001, there were according to census five people on the island who live in Oronsay Priory, a small monastery, the agriculture on the island operates ( Oronsay Farm).

From the directly northern, larger island of Oronsay Colonsay is separated by the Wadden area The beach, which is 100-1300 m wide.

Oronsay is an important Mesolithic temporal locality with numerous shell middens of the so-called Obadian. The location of the five Mesolithic middens indicates the usage months of the places from the size distribution of the ear bones ( otoliths ) of charcoal burners, the most important species of fish, which was caught on Oronsay, were derived. As they grow up very fast, is the length of the ear bones a reference to the season in which the fish was caught.

The island is known for the ruins of the monastery Oronsay, an Augustinian Abbey in the 14th century. Part of this system is the stone Celtic cross Oronsay Great Cross, which is similar to those of the Isle of Iona.

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