Hiya again
Had a fantastic day out yesterday, joining a crowd of about twenty-five for a guided walk in frosty and snowy Kilmartin Glen.
Sharon Webb, the curator of the small but splendid
Kilmartin House Museum, talked to us about the likely significance of the complex of standing stones at Nether Largie, and possible festivities that may have been held in and around the stone ellipses at what is now called Temple Wood.
Having walked north to one of the burial cairns, a friend of mine and I rushed back to Temple Wood to catch the sunrise.
The brisk walk did us good and helped us warm up.
But we were really glad to be able to sit down at the end of the one-and-a-half-hour walk to a hot breakfast at Kilmartin House's Glebe Cairn Café.
Afterwards, five of us walked back to our cars in the sunshine and enjoyed the slightly warmer air and tranquillity of a very special day in the year.
It was particularly gratifying for me to be able to capture the spiral scored into one of the Temple Wood standing stones. It takes a special light for the spiral to be visible in a photo.
And the tallest of the Nether Largie standing stones looks really good in this photo. Again, one can just make out the cup marks, which make this stone a very rare specimen indeed.
Happiness and peace to all!
I dedicate this post to my parents, who saw the grass of Temple Wood covered in bluebells in late May 2009!
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