Cromarty Cemetery & Hugh Miller Monument

The extension to the burial ground in Cromarty. Hugh Miller’s Monument is in the background.

Hugh Miller’s Monument, Cromarty, which stands on a hill above the town with the Cromarty Firth and the coast of Easter Ross in the background.

The Hugh Miller Monument was erected by the people of Cromarty in 1859. A statue of the writer and geologist, sculpted by A. Handyside Ritchie, stands on top of a 154.2.metre high Doric column built by Thomas Watson.