Tour Scotland photographs and videos from my tours of Scotland. Photography and videography, both old and new, from beautiful Scotland, Scottish castles, seascapes, rivers, islands, landscapes, standing stones, lochs and glens.
Old Photograph The Dwarfie Stane Scotland
Old photograph of The Dwarfie Stane on Hoy an island of the Orkney Islands, Scotland. This a is a megalithic chambered tomb carved out of a titanic block of Devonian Old Red Sandstone located in a steep-sided glaciated valley between the settlements of Quoys and Rackwick. It is the only chambered tomb in Orkney that is cut from stone rather than built from stones and might be the only example of a Neolithic rock-cut tomb in Britain. The name is derived from local legend that a dwarf named Trollid lived there, although, ironically, the tomb has also been claimed as the work of giants. Its existence was popularised in Walter Scott's novel The Pirate published in 1821.
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