Ballochroy Bronzezeit stehende Steine in einer Linie NE-SW, Kintyre, Argyll, Schottland, UK, Blick N in Richtung Knapdale über die Mündung des West Loch Tarbert
3818 x 2675 px | 32,3 x 22,6 cm | 12,7 x 8,9 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
30. Juni 1987
Ort:
Ballochroy Standing Stones, Tarbert, Kintyre, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
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Ballochroy Bronze Age standing stones, Kintyre, Scotland, UK, looking northwards towards Knapdale across the mouth of West Loch Tarbert. The setting of three stones in a NE-SW line is believed to have been erected as a prehistoric observatory for the midsummer solstice sunset over the Paps of Jura 19 miles to the NW, and the midwinter sunset over Cara Island to the SW. Looking along the flat NE face of the central stone, the midsummer sun sets into the U-shape between Beinn Shiantaidht and the pointed peak of Corra Beinn; at the summer solstice around 1800 BC it would have set down the smooth slope to its R. In the the opposite (SE) direction this alignment marks the simultaneously rising midsummer full moon. Rather than a precise solar observatory, some believe Ballochroy is more likely to have been erected to mark symbolic alignments to major events of the moon and sun.
