Cockle Shell
the two halves 3" across
from Stove Bay
" From Heclabir we went to the old house of Stove, finely situated at the head of a sandy bay. the whole of this bay is one continued cockle bed; it is no uncommon thing to see some dozens of the half famished inhabitants digging the cockles at ebb tide, This, at best is but a miserable fare".
Patrick Niel - A tour through some of the islands of Orkney 1804
