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Carse Megaliths

Loch Stornoway Tarbert, Argyll

Large image (703x403 - 35k) Looking southwest into Loch Stornoway and the open sea. The stones in the foreground are just field-clearance.
Large image (438x698 - 74k) The paired stones are very well aligned north-south. The compass at the bottom edge of the picture indicates south along the line of the megaliths.
Large image (667x460 - 51k) Looking southeast
Large image (468x700 - 75k) Looking southwest

Carse is at the south west edge of the South Knapdale peninsula. Three megaliths stand here, two close together and aligned north-south with a third some hundred yards away.

CANMORE reports that fragments of Bronze Age plates were found at the base of the stones in the mid-19th century, but that these have since apparently disintegrated (that is, no-one can find them any more).

The tall-thin stone is ten feet tall and two and a half feet wide, the wide stone being eight feet tall and four feet wide. Both are a little over one foot thick.

There is a local tradition that at this spot there was a battle between the Clans Campbell and McIver. The story goes that a number of McIver chiefs were killed by the Campbells when they were caught on a cattle-stealing expedition. Early in the nineteenth century, the land a little away from the stones was being drained and a helmet, inlaid with gold, and several ornamental sword hilts were found.

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