Discover Top Posts Tagged with #colonsay

Rock carving from the Isle of Colonsay in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland

#pagan #archeology #colonsay #hebrides #scottish art #scotland #celtic #rock carving

David C. Weinczok @TheCastleHunter's Scottish Wonders AtoZ.

F is for Fingal's Limpet Hammers.

On the Isle of Consay, this pair of tall and leaning standing stones are colloquially named after implements used for prising limpets from the rocks, and of course are associated with the legendary Celtic giant Fingal.An 'underground passage' was discovered during ploughing early in the 20th century, but this was later covered up. It is possible that the underground passage was, in fact, a cist burial.The stones are all that is left of what is generaly accepted to have been a stone circle, they are clearly visible from the road. So clearly visible, in fact, that the sign marking their location seems a bit redundant! There is a gate into the field, where the stones can easily be reached.The stones are alternately called Carrach An.

#scotland #colonsay #History