imported>Entranced98: Adding local short description: "Mountain in Highland, Scotland", overriding Wikidata description "801m high mountain in Highland, Scotland, UK"

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Adding local short description: "Mountain in Highland, Scotland", overriding Wikidata description "801m high mountain in Highland, Scotland, UK"

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{{Short description|Mountain in Highland, Scotland}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox mountain
| name = Cranstackie
| photo = Cranstackie_from_south.jpg
| photo_caption = Cranstackie from the east.
| elevation_m = 801
| elevation_ref = <ref name="gfs">{{cite web |title=Cranstackie: Overview |url=https://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst843.html |website=Gazetteer for Scotland}}</ref>
| prominence =
| listing = [[Corbett (hill)|Corbett]],<ref name="gfs"/> [[Marilyn (hill)|Marilyn]]
| language = [[Norse language|Norse]]
| location = [[Assynt]], [[Scotland]]
| range =
| coordinates =
| grid_ref_UK = NC350556
| topo = [[Ordnance Survey|OS]] ''Landranger'' 9
| type =
| first_ascent =
| easiest_route =
}}

'''Cranstackie''' is a mountain of {{convert|801|m}} in [[Sutherland]],<ref name="gfs"/> the northwestern tip of the [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[Scottish Highlands|Highlands]]. It is a [[Corbett (hill)|Corbett]] located west of [[Loch Eriboll]] and northeast of [[Foinaven]]. Like its lesser Corbett neighbour [[Beinn Spionnaidh]] to the northeast, its summit ridge is covered with massive blockfields and blockpiles of Cambrian sandstone, in fact quartz-arenite <ref>British Geological Survey https://geologyviewer.bgs.ac.uk/?_ga=2.53271528.1594552022.1662198591-1953927359.1662198591</ref> which is less sharp and loose than the pure white [[quartzite]] found further south. The two hills present a steep escarpment to the west, from where the usual way ascends through an easy gap, with a dip slope to the east. Below the summit ridges, Lewisian gneiss basement supports grassy and mossy slopes offering better going.
On the first OS maps,<ref>https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=14.0&lat=58.45969&lon=-4.84153&layers=257s&b=1&o=100</ref> the hill was named Crann Stachach, suggested to mean peaky or uneven hill of the tree <ref>https://scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/digital-volumes/ordnance-survey-name-books/sutherland-os-name-books-1871-1875/sutherland-volume-12/4</ref> but "crann" is more likely a horizontal "beam" here; the tor-stippled skyline is notable from the main road to the west. The name was anglicised on subsequent maps and stated to be of obscure meaning, supposedly Norse – "stac" is indeed a sharp hillock.

==References==
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{{coord|58.45738|N|4.82973|W|region:GB_source:enwiki-osgb36(NC350556)|display=title}}

[[Category:Corbetts]]
[[Category:Mountains and hills of the Northwest Highlands]]
[[Category:Marilyns of Scotland]]

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imported>Entranced98: Adding local short description: "Mountain in Highland, Scotland", overriding Wikidata description "801m high mountain in Highland, Scotland, UK"