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Kilmartin Prehistoric Standing Stones and other monuments

Kilmartin is one of my absolute favourite places in all of Scotland – while at first glance there doesn’t seem much to see, there are in fact over 800 ancient monuments, stone circles, dolman, cairns, and other features within the Kilmartin Glen!  Add to that, it just feels amazing…  I am not one for camping (I’m more of a five-star girl, LOL!), but I would love to camp here…

Just in this photo below there are three monuments – a stone circle, a set of standing stones, and a dolman!  …and the Templar graves I visited are only just up the road from this site…

 

It was a lovely brisk 1 degree C (33 degrees F) as I set out to cross a bridge over the Atlantic! Technically, it is known as Clachan Bridge, and because the Clachan Sound connects to the Atlantic Ocean at both ends, meaning it has Altantic Ocean water flowing through…
"The Lady of the Lake" is a narrative poem by Sir Walter Scott (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), and is set around Loch Katine and the Scottish Trossachs.  Being a huge Sir Walter Scott fan (I have a first edition of his entire collection, and even travel with his biography…

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