stevoknevo
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This discovery took place maybe 200 yards directly behind where I currently live - they went searching for the location in 1964 and couldn't find it. Loads of caves around here, I've known people who've fallen on hard times and lived in them until we alerted the relevant authorities!
https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-a...-buried-cave-near-oban-6000-years-ago-3104530
And this popped up on my Twitter earlier too - for shame, and despite driving past for the last 15 years, I've never been to the site and didn't realise they were 'Highland Clearance' properties - I posted photos in the Out and About thread from the nearby Kilmory Oib settlement mentioned last year, and only just now realising that was a clearance settlement too as the sign says it was abandoned!
https://canmore.org.uk/site/39175/arichonan-township
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1...?key=ODBBV045WC1ScHdHaHI0R2hBZmxkY2NTWDBqQ01n
And not far Arichonan/Kilmory Oib is, as the article says, a very special place indeed - Kilmartin Glen. Essentially the setting for Pixar's 'Brave' movie, it really is an ethereal place (even just driving through as it's on the main route between Mid Argyll and North Argyll. Man, if only the land could share it's stories...
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryMagazine/DestinationsUK/Kilmartin-Glen/
I'll add more later as I could be here for days!
Anything interesting where you live? Post the good stuff here
https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-a...-buried-cave-near-oban-6000-years-ago-3104530
And this popped up on my Twitter earlier too - for shame, and despite driving past for the last 15 years, I've never been to the site and didn't realise they were 'Highland Clearance' properties - I posted photos in the Out and About thread from the nearby Kilmory Oib settlement mentioned last year, and only just now realising that was a clearance settlement too as the sign says it was abandoned!
https://canmore.org.uk/site/39175/arichonan-township
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1...?key=ODBBV045WC1ScHdHaHI0R2hBZmxkY2NTWDBqQ01n
And not far Arichonan/Kilmory Oib is, as the article says, a very special place indeed - Kilmartin Glen. Essentially the setting for Pixar's 'Brave' movie, it really is an ethereal place (even just driving through as it's on the main route between Mid Argyll and North Argyll. Man, if only the land could share it's stories...
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryMagazine/DestinationsUK/Kilmartin-Glen/
I'll add more later as I could be here for days!
Anything interesting where you live? Post the good stuff here