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Camas an Staca

Standing Stone / Menhir

<b>Camas an Staca</b>Posted by notjamesbondImage © notjamesbond
Also known as:
  • Camus an Stacca

Nearest Town:Lochgilphead (45km NE)
OS Ref (GB):   NR464647 / Sheets: 60, 61
Latitude:55° 48' 31.42" N
Longitude:   6° 2' 52.35" W

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"Just a little further on and we moved from history to prehistory at the superbly sited standing stone. This twelve foot high stone goes back 3,000 years before Somerled, to the Bronze Age. Of the men who carried it here we know little. Strangely, it is in Jura that traces of the very first men in Scotland have been found - flint arrowheads uncovered in the sand dating back over 9,000 years. Perhaps the proliferation of the caves, large and small, made Jura a natural island for colonisation by the first shore-dwelling people looking for a place to settle."

Jura In The Sun, from

Tom Weir's Scotland, published 1980.
drewbhoy Posted by drewbhoy
24th October 2009ce

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The Gaelic Landscape of Jura: Place Names and Landscape Photography


(The) bay of (the) projecting rocks; in this case, standing stones.
Posted by rockandy
14th June 2006ce
Edited 15th June 2006ce