Old Photograph Auld Wife's Lift Craigmaddie Scotland

Old photograph of the Auld Wife's Lift on Craigmaddie Moor near Torrance village in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Local legend states that three women from Campsie, Strathblane and Baldernock tried their strength by placing the stones in position. Large boulders, standing close together, with a third lying on top of them. All three are of the local carboniferous sandstone and, although at first sight they might be thought to be a cromlech, their arrangement is unquestionably natural. The surfaces of the boulders are covered with carvings of names and initials dating back at least to the early 19th century. There are also nine carved and incised heads of unknown date.



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