The Cliovast stone Unst Shetland Isles. SCO 7521
'like a tree trunk. stone like like old wood. and huge cracks from bottom to top add to its weight of years. this huge trunk reaches nearly straight to the sky. views of 270degrees of seas, inlets, isles. whether intended as such or not this stone is alter-like. faces east-west; flat side east. (pity its right beside the road). all the stone that seems to have come out of the ground here has the same wood effect, and judging from the stone used in the walls around, appears to split readily into small versions of the elongated standing stone. The other stone, a couple of fields down and across to the right (assuming the one I found was the right one), is only a wee slip of a stone, about feet tall. stands between furrows in a cultivated field, seemingly fallow at the moment, on a small untouched patch, surrounded by smaller stones and other odd detritus. by its size, barely believable as a standing stone. there possible remains of building footings further down the same field as the larger standing stone, of unknown age.' From field notes posted by FlopsyPete on 29th April 2002ce Edited 29th November 2003ce
Size: 3862px × 5882px
Location: Clivocast, Unst, Shetland. Scotland. United Kingdom
Photo credit: © David Gowans / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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