Gazing Into The Past - Standing Stones In Scottish Highlands is a photograph by Mark Tisdale which was uploaded on August 1st, 2013.
Gazing Into The Past - Standing Stones In Scottish Highlands
There's an indescribable feeling standing before ancient sites like this on, Balnuaran of Clava in the Scottish Highlands. There's just so much... more
by Mark Tisdale
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Gazing Into The Past - Standing Stones In Scottish Highlands
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Mark Tisdale
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There's an indescribable feeling standing before ancient sites like this on, Balnuaran of Clava in the Scottish Highlands. There's just so much mystery to them. We only have a small peek into the minds of the builders of these and older ancient structures. They exist without any written record to explain them but they tug at our emotions because we know they must have meant something to those long ago builders.
From what I've read and was told about the Clava Cairns is that they are much newer than some of the other stone burial tombs - although still on the order of 4,000 years old! But where a lot of the older burial tombs were communal tombs, these cairns appear to have been built for a single individual (although they think the ones at Balnuaran of Clava were re-used a hundreds of years after the first burials).
Our visit to Clava cairns took place on one of the last days of my journey through the Highlands but the sun was out in full force that morning as we walked around the ancient stones and tried to gaze back into our distant past. I love to imagine the people from so long ago, for which this place had clear meaning, stood there on day this beautiful as well. I can almost see them walking among the stones...
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