No permanent damage has been done to a set of dinosaur footprints on Skye, despite a man pouring plaster into the tracks.

He was reported to police after attempting to make a mould of the 165-million-year-old prints on Staffin Beach on December 28.

Despite concerns raised by a passerby, they are not thought to have suffered permanent damage.

The footprints are believed to have been created by a sauropod, a distant relative of the brontosaurus which lived during the Jurassic age and weighed about ten tonnes.

Last year, the 170-million-year-old skeleton of a dolphin-like reptile discovered on Skye in the 1960s was unveiled for the first time.