Today I finished the first two parts of the travelogue from our Islay trip in May, I have split them up in several sections otherwise they would become too large. Here are links to the first week's travelogue and the second week's travelogue. The third week will follow soon!
While was going through the many pictures of our last trip I found a few interesting photo's that puzzle me because I don't know exactly what they are. The first picture is one I took close to Kilchoman, between Kilchoman church and the memorial for the american soldiers who died in 1918. It looks like a headstone with a cross depicted on both sides, not a regular cross though but a Kildalton like Cross (with some imagination). I couldn't find any text on the stone.
What puzzles me are the following questions:
What exactly is it? Why is it there? Who put it there? If anyone has a clue please let me know! Many thanks for helping out.
The headstone however is not the only thing that puzzled me. When you drive from Bruichladdich to Bridgend and take the B8018 right and then passing Foreland House on your right after a few hundred meters you drive on a hill top with wonderful views over Islay and even Mull. A fine place to stop and admire the wonderful views. A few hundred meters further down this road I took the picture below and again I don't have a clue what it is. It's not some sort of stone circle, it could be 19 peat stacks but I can't remember seeing such peat stacks anywhere else on Islay. It could even be some sort of pillars left standing from a former building, if you take a close look you will see a ruined building on the right of the pillars. And again I wonder what is this? Who can help me solve this mystery? If you have a clue, again please let me know.
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