The SEARCH (field archaeology) team will be at Allt Chrysal between June 15th and 3rd July ‘05. I believe that all are welcome to pop along and have a look at what they are doing
follow that cow
Below Knock Hill there is a lovely little stone circle, just off the road on the right hand side, a hundred yards before the Cairnpapple pullover/parking.
This is of the postmodernolithic era and was constructed in 1998 as a birthday present to the farmer from his son.
I often see visitors earnestly pouring over maps and guide books trying to figure out just what and/or where this is.
Don’t be duped... like I was.
Callanish.
Stand amongst the stones.
This is nothing like any image you may have seen or article you may have read. Callinish is awesome, yet intimate. Its three dimensional artistry stimulates our senses out of their two dimensional torpor.
Isn’t it wonderful that there are somethings more amazing than can ever be dreamt of by the marketing men, or sanitised by digital enhancement!
Recently on my first visit to Tara(25/07/04) I was struck by the similarity of the locale with Dunadd in Kilmartin Glen.
On both sites there is an amazing 360 degree vista. And this without having climbed to any great elevation.
Both Tara and Dunadd are quite unobtrusive as you approach them.
This underestimation of their power and height over the landscape helps to add to the sense of surprise plus majesty and magic when one surveys all lying below.
It would seem to me that those Gaels who chose Dunadd as their base were emulating their ancestral power base at Tara.