We drove halfway up, and parked by a row of old static caravans with sad looking people watching tv. These were our first stones of a week on Mull being less than a mile from the campsite, a natural choice. I had no idea there was three stones, the fallen one is closer to one stone than the other making it look like if it fell where it stood then there is a big gap where a lost stone could have been originally.
Visited 13th August 2004: I confess that we drove up the track, which got us pretty close to the stones. I don't think you're supposed to do this though, and it was very tricky turning the car round.
I can't add much to Nick's notes. The sheep in the field where the row lies are extremely friendly, which entertained the kids loads. Also, there's an exclellent view of Josie Jump's house from the stones.
Park at the Mull Pottery and take the track just north of the buildings which leads west up-hill. The stones are around 400m in, on a raised platform. There are 3 stones here, the centre one being recumbent. The northern stone is the larger, being just over 2.5m in height. The row runs roughly N-S, and the southern stone is well under 2m. The central recumbent stone looks as if it would have been the largest, it's around 3m long in its current position.
This is a pretty impressive viewpoint, and worth waking up to on a clear day. Unfortunately our view of the Ardnamurchan Peninsula on the mainland was a bit obscured by smoke from burning moorland, which is clearly visible in one of the photographs.
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