ANCIENT ARGYLL
It was always a hard life.
1600 years ago in Kentallen bay it is not difficult to imagine a little hamlet, with primitive craft for fishing. Everyone would help to build a new croft. With a thatched roof of heather, it would be quite cosy, rather smoky, with the animals in the back. They’d collect the stones from the bays
The stones would last for generations. The stones would see the babies born, the meals cooked, the dancing and the singing at the celidhs. Washing would be in the stream The stones would see the young people fall in love, get married. The stones would see the fights and the raids by rival clans. The stones would see the old ones die and be buried. Then the stones would see the new babies born...…
The stones are still there in the bay and on the beach
Did you know there is a Pictish Broch, just 12 miles away? Take the little ferry from Port Appin, walk for an hour, you can climb the walls. There is also a chambered cairn by the Ballachulish Bridge and a Dun nearby. The largest standing stone in Argyll is in our village.
Don’t you want to see the stones?
Pick up one in the bay…..4 million years old or more……?
This is the Broch on Lismore with Appin and Glencoe in the distance.
