July 30th Photograph Scottish Crannog Centre Loch Tay Scotland

July 30th photograph of the Scottish Crannog Centre, Loch Tay, Scotland. A crannog is a type of ancient loch dwelling found throughout Scotland and Ireland dating from 5,000 years ago. Many crannogs were built out in the water as defensive homesteads and represented symbols of power and wealth. The Scottish Crannog Centre features a unique reconstruction of an early Iron Age loch dwelling.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Croft Moraig Stone Circle

Tour Scotland photograph of Croft Moraig Stone Circle, Perthshire, Scotland. Croft Moraig, near Aberfeldy in Perthshire, with its concentric rings and outliers on an artificial platform. The history of the site is known from an excavation in 1965: Aout 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.

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July 30th Photograph Loch Tay Scotland

July 30th photograph of Loch Tay, Perthshire, Scotland. A very dull and rainy day in Kenmore, Scotland. Loch Tay is a long Scottish loch in the central Highlands, running from Killin to Kenmore, and overlooked by Ben Lawers.

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July 30th Photograph Keltneyburn Smiddy Scotland

Heather Cumming who made the piper shown above is a designer who recycles industrial and agricultural scrap metal into sculptures. Her work can be viewed at the Bothy Showroom, Keltneyburn Smiddy, Keltneyburn, north of, Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Photographs Black Dwarf Statue Scotland

Old photograph of the Black Dwarf Statue, at Manor, near Peebles, Scotland. The Black Dwarf of Peebles. Sir Walter Scott wrote about him, but the character was real. In the churchyard of Manor is the grave of the Black Dwarf, who lived in a cottage erected by himself near Woodhouse farm.





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