Croft Moraig Standing Stone Circle With Music On History Visit To Highland Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K travel video, with Scottish bagpipes music, of Croft Moraig Standing Stone Circle on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to the Highlands of Perthshire, Britain, United Kingdom. Croft Moraig, near Aberfeldy in Perthshire, with its concentric rings and outliers on an artificial platform. The concentration of prehistoric monuments, broadly of the later third and early second millennium B.C., in the upper Tay valley, has been noted by more than one archaeologist. The multiple stone circle is located no more than 2 miles from the North Eastern end of Loch Tay at Kenmore, and 4 miles West of Aberfeldy, Croft Moraig or Morag, has long been known as a prehistoric monument: ‘" Yon's the Druid Stones " shouted the coach drivers to their passengers as they passed by. Probably the earliest record of the site is that made by the poet Robert Burns on his Highland journey in 1787 when he wrote, " Druid's Temple, three circles of stones. The outermost sunk, the second has thirteen stones remaining; the innermost eight, two large detached ones like a gate to the South East, say prayers in it. " The history of the site is known from an excavation in 1965: About 5000 years ago, a horseshoe arrangement of fourteen wide wooden posts was erected in an ellipse 7 metres by 8 metres. This was surrounded by a ditch. The posts were later replaced by eight stones of graded height. Another smaller stone stood just outside. Some Neolithic pottery was found related to this phase of the site. A rubble bank was created outside the stones and cup-marked stones added that aligned with the southern moonset and the midsummer sunrise. A twelve metre diameter circle of twelve large stones was constructed and a couple of large outlying stones added. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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