Taransay

Nearest town:
Stornoway (52km NE)
OS reference:
NB013008
OS sheet:
18
Latitude:
57° 53' 47.14 N
Longitude:
7° 2' 31.74 W
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Image of Taransay (Standing Stone / Menhir) by the wicken

Further to the south is yet another stone, this one had at least a companion, a smaller stone stands close by,

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the wicken Sep 12, 2002
Image of Taransay (Standing Stone / Menhir) by the wicken

I had some time to wander around taransay, i wandered up onto the high ground to the east of the standinf stone and found this. It is hard to be sure that it is a standing stone but i am pretty sure that it was once bigger. The position is so good it would be hard to not convinced that this is a companion to clach an teamaill

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the wicken Sep 12, 2002
Image of Taransay (Standing Stone / Menhir) by the wicken

I was very fortunate last year in the heat of the foot and mouth crisis to take a sailing trip to st kilda, on the way back we had some time to kill and ended up on taransay. I found this rather wonderful stone on my brief stay. Despite what tv has done for the island it is still rather a quite beautiful place.

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the wicken Sep 12, 2002

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Taransay

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the wicken Sep 12, 2002

This is rather a plesant area to investigate, it is a lot more open than further north. I was reliably informed by one of the locals that the three stones identified on the map for a kind of right angle. Any investigation shows that this is a rather more complex story. The stones have survived rather well plenty of backing stones are visible on the ground around the large stones. One thing that must be remembered is that there were once many more people living in this area than presently, the stones survived that.

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