Nether Largie Standing Stones

More than 3,000 years ago, when the Celts inhabited the region of Kilmartin, south of Oban on the west coast of the Scottish Highlands, the valley was covered by a thick oak forest. Difficult to imagine, given that today the valley is completely green fields and pastures, but the standing stones that dot the landscape today were once hidden deep in this forest, surrounded by trees. This shows that they were in fact markers as to guide the pilgrim, as these standing stones are often aligned and form a sort of passage, perhaps for use in ritual ...