Tour Scotland Photograph Standing Stones Torhouse


Tour Scotland photograph of the Standing Stones of Torhouse, a circle of nineteen granite boulders on the land of Torhouse, three miles west of Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Torhouskie Stone Circle dating from Neolithic times. Local tradition maintains that the three large stones in the middle of the circle contained the tomb of Galdus, a mythical Scottish king. A similar story is told about one of the tombs at Cairnholy, also in Galloway,



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1 comment:

Unknown said...

Fascinating to think about how all of these neolithic stone circles could be connected.