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Uiskentuie (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Fieldnotes |
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Another tremendous site, more stunning views and another gigantic standing stone on Islay, this time at Uiskentuie. It stands at 3m tall with no markings except for the lichen giving the stone a stately person type look. Easy parking on the main road, up a wee hill, through a couple of gates, job done. Visited 1/8/2018. |
Posted by drewbhoy8th February 2019ce |
Port Charlotte (Chambered Tomb) — Fieldnotes |
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From Cultoon we headed south to the beautiful village of Portnahaven before heading north east towards Port Charlotte. Just the the south of the village pull in the campsite. Whoever constructed the football pitch, campsite and restaurant should congratulated on doing a cracking job. Good to see some children taking interest in the site when we arrived, as soon as I started looking and taking photographs they asked questions, Aberdeenshire kids from Insch, very intelligent :-) The site does seem to be looked after slightly better than in the past and it was litter free. Canmore Description This chambered cairn is situated in a field at the edge of the raised beach 750m SW of Port Charlotte; the chamber and much of the cairn were excavated between 1976 and 1979, and the following account makes use of the interim report and further information supplied by the excavators (Peirpoint and Harrington 1978). The cairn, which is aligned NNE and SSW, measures 22m in breadth and is now about the same length, but the SSW end has been destroyed, and it would originally have been much longer. The chamber, at the NNE end, is entered from the centre of a concave facade of which only the stump of one stone and a fallen second stone now remain. Immediately in front of the entrance there was a pit, some 0.6m deep, from the bottom of which charcoal provided a radiocarbon date of ad 90+- (HAR-2405), but this may have been a result of contamination. The large slab in front of the entrance has been erected as if to form a portal stone. The sill-stone, only part of which is shown on plan (RCAHMS plan A), is 0.8m long, 0.23m thick and 1.16m high, and was held in position by two jamb-stones; the septal stone is 0.9m long, 0.96m high and 0.15m thick. The second compartment (1.5m long and 1.3m broad) comprises two massive side-slabs up to 0.9m high supported from behind by large slabs, which can be seen protruding through the cairn material. The third compartment has been destroyed, and the fourth is now represented only by the W side-slab. The missing slabs appear to have been removed for use as culvert-covers in the last century, but the slots from which they had been removed were discovered in the course of excavation. Now I liked this site, tremendous views to Kintra and Bowmore as well as the nearby hills, which hopefully will see my feet reasonably soon. Visited 1/8/2018. |
Posted by drewbhoy 8th February 2019ce |
Cultoon (Stone Circle) — Links |
CanmoreDetails of the excavations and a wee bit about the nearby mound. |
Posted by drewbhoy 8th February 2019ce |
Stonehenge and its Environs — News |
The battle for the future of StonehengeBritain’s favourite monument is stuck in the middle of a bad-tempered row over road traffic. By Charlotte Higgins Published: 06:00 Friday, 08 February 2019 Stonehenge, with the possible exception of Big Ben, is Britain’s most recognisable monument. As a symbol of the nation’s antiquity, it is our Parthenon, our pyramids – although, admittedly, less impressive. Neil MacGregor, the former director of the British Museum, recalls that when he took a group of Egyptian archaeologists to see it, they were baffled by our national devotion to the stones, which, compared to the refined surfaces of the pyramids, seemed to them like something hastily thrown up over a weekend. More: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/feb/08/the-battle-for-the-future-of-stonehenge?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other |
Posted by ryaner8th February 2019ce |
Cultoon (Stone Circle) — Miscellaneous |
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Passionate about British Heritage David Ross https://www.britainexpress.com/scotland/Strathclyde/ancient/cultoon.htm |
Posted by drewbhoy 8th February 2019ce |
Cultoon (Stone Circle) — Fieldnotes |
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After some activities not involving prehistory or distilleries (I know unbelievable) we headed to Cultoon Stone Circle. From Port Charlotte on the A847 take the minor road heading west and keep on it as it veers south leading straight to the stone circle. The mound beside the site I'd say was a cairn with some kerbs still in place, one or two rabbit holes seem to hint at artificialness. No need to describe the site as that has been done before, however what a weird place this is. Why did the people of the time cart all of these stones to the top of a wee hill only to put two up. Some theories are discussed in the Misc. post. Visited 1/8/2018. |
Posted by drewbhoy 8th February 2019ce |
Barharrow (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) — Images (click to view fullsize) |
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Posted by Howburn Digger6th February 2019ce |
Druid Auchencar (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Images |
  
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Posted by Howburn Digger 4th February 2019ce |
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