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tiompan Sep 7, 2009 15:14:17
Replying to mascot

mascot wrote:
Pictures look very interesting, not a site I've heard of before.

What's the story here?

Mac

It's basically a stone family that are put outside their house (gaelic =tigh ) for spring and returned in winter . No date for how long this has being going on but at least 250 years . The site used to be a few miles from the nearest roads but has become more accessible in the past few years with improved land rover tracks ,hence the problem about vandalism/theft .

M moss
moss Sep 7, 2009 15:23:49
Replying to tiompan

Thanks for putting the photographs up, it look bleak but beautiful. The stones look somewhat like what you find on the Dartmoor tors. Natural shapes that are vaguely human, the trilogy of the three females has been somewhat lost in the 'family' though. If myth there be, its later, but on a cautious note bleak landscapes go quite well with prehistoric history, needs someone to dive into that cold looking loch though and find evidence....

M mascot
mascot Sep 7, 2009 15:55:04
Replying to tiompan

OK - I'm new to this so it's not a tradition I'd come across before.

I go hill walking in the West Coast Highland area most years, is this a common tradition along the West side of Scotland? If so I'll try to work some into my next foray up North.

Mac