50 TORRS WARREN. 
who inhabited this site had probably been obliged to quit it ina 
hurry, leaving everything behind them, and never returned ; 
perhaps it was suddenly overwhelmed with sand. 
There are but few names of localities on the Torrs. On the old 
antiquity ground we have High and Mid Torrs ; Knock Slide, five 
hundred yards south-east of Mid Torrs steading, a good locality ; 
Clachshiant, and the site of a traditional church, said to be the 
original Clachshiant (the saint’s grave); it looks like part of an old 
earthwork fort. There are also the remnants of the turf walls of 
what is thought to have been another church (near the Genoch) 
on Mid Torrs ; Horse Hill, already mentioned, must be nearer the 
boundary of the old antiquity ground on its east side. Knock 
Slide must have been a hillock when first named, but it is at 
present a “howling waste” of drifting sand. On the new 
antiquity ground there 1s the ‘‘ Roman Camp,” most likely quite a 
recent fanciful name, as no Roman antiquities have been got on 
the Torrs. The Laigh Torrs Huts is evidently quite a recent 
name. Outside of the antiquity ground and nearer the sea, we 
have Lodanree (the grave of the king), half a mile south of Laigh 
Torrs steading ; Lodanmore, west of Lodanree ; Wee Lodanmore, 
five hundred yards west-south-west of Lodanmore ; Knock Allan, 
between Lodanmore and Wee Lodanmore; Fleckit Hill, five 
hundred yards west of Lodanmore; and the Minix, now a water 
hole surrounded by steep banks, one mile west of Laigh Torrs 
steading. The Lanes is a low grassy part of the Torrs, with slight 
ridges parallel to the coast line, and during winter a large part of 
it is covered by water. It extends for a long distance, and 
separates the sand dunes of the shore from those of the raised 
beach at the part where it occurs. The Lane Pad is a footpath 
over the sands known only to those in the neighbourhood, and 
extends from Mid Torrs to the Lanes. It will be seen from this 
that the Torrs’ names are mostly of Geelic origin. 
I know of no undoubted remains of old forts having been 
discovered on the Torrs; the so-called ‘‘church” on Clachshiant 
is the only remnant of what may have been a fort. 
Shell mounds appear to be entirely absent, and this is strange 
considering how rich the beach is now in solons and cockles ; 
pretty large oyster shells are often brought ashore by the waves, 
and Cypria is sometimes seen, a good edible species and common 
