Really enjoyed the photographs. This area was already on my list of places to see on my next trip to Scotland. The photographs only increased my interest.
Wow! That brings back some memories! I had a really interesting time crossing the Moine Mhor on my way to Dun Ad from the Kilmartin Glen on my visit in '98. What an experience! Thanks for the flashback and those superb photos.
If I can dig 'em up I'll try and post my sketches from my treck, which includes the standing stones and Dun Ad. Sorry for my spelling...
One needs to be a bit careful about making too much of piles of stones. When the land was organised for "modern" agriculture in the, I think, 1700's onwards, thousands of tons of rocks that were strewn about by glaciers were cleared and dumped in piles in and around the fields. We still do it today. Only a few years ago we had some boffin get really excited at a pile of stone and was convinced that it might well be an ancient Broch. He was not very happy when one of my sons told him that it was just a pile of stones and boulders that we had cleared from a field a few years before. Ho hum! Great pictures nonetheless.
Thanks again for the history lesson - Its wonderful to add some photos to my understanding of Dalraida. I am also struck again by how much this area looks like the part of north Idaho I live in. Its almost uncanny - but then we probably share some similar geological processes and events.
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