vertical portrait of standing stones at Balliscate near Tobermory on the isle of Mull in Scotland
This is an alignment of three stones, with the central stone having fallen or been pushed over to Christianise the monument by making a cross shape. The stones are and metres in height, and the row is about five metres long. A survey shows that the stones lie on a north-south line, only 3 - 5 degrees east of north. This seems to suggest that the prehistoric peoples who erected the stones wished to mark the area in the northern sky around which the heavens appeared to revolve, known to us today as the 'pole'. Other sites in this book feature the same orientation, for example Carnasserie, Salachary and Dalarran Holm.
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Photo credit: © Michael Sayles / Alamy / Afripics
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