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Publication Account
Date 1985
Event ID 1018906
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1018906
Linear settings of standing stones were clearly an important feature of bronze-age religious or ceremonial occasions, providing perhaps a framework for a series of rituals. One of the best-preserved linear settings is in a clearing in a forestry plantation, a position that precludes our appreciation of its situation in the landscape. Three stones are still upright, but the fourth at the north end of the group has now fallen. The three upright stones are all substantial blocks over 2m in height.
Two other linear settings are less well-preserved or less impressive, but are more accessible. To the north of the road from Tobermory to Dervaig at a point about 850m east of the village, an opening in the forestry fence allows access to a group of five stones of which two are still standing (NM 439520). At a point some 400m to the south there are three other stones, one of which now forms part of a wall (NM 438516).
Information from ‘Exploring Scotland’s Heritage: Argyll and the Western Isles’, (1985).
