Wednesday 8th August - Islay - Port Ellen - Standing Stone

Wednesday 8th August

Cloudy, cool breeze, odd sunny spells

Islay - Port Ellen -

Standing Stone

This morning we drove back to Bowmore to the Visitor Centre to get a Gaelic phrase pamphlet and some information about walking tracks near Port Ellen. We got a handy little booklet that described a walk to a Standing Stone that just suited us.

So after lunch we set off up the road to a side track:

... and there it was over the wall in the middle of a paddock:

There was a sort of a style hidden amongst the weeds in the wall so over we went and got right up to it. It was like contacting Iron Age people of 3,000 years ago;

It was pretty well shaped into a rectangular profile across!