Menhir of Port Ellen
The menhir of Port Ellen is a prehistoric stone block and stands east of Port Ellen , one of the harbors on the Inner Hebridean island of Islay in Scotland .
The menhir ( English Standing Stone ) of coarse slate is about 4.3 m high (the second largest of the island, apart from one of the menhirs of Ballinaby ) and is in a field east of Kilbride Road. At the bottom it has a cross-section of 0.92 × 0.53 m. Nearby, within sight of the island of Texa , are the menhirs of Kilbride (3.0 m) and Torradale (1.5 m high) and the rows of stones from Achnancarranan and Lagavulin.
literature
- Francis Celoria: Preliminary handbook to Islay. No. 7/31, 1959
- Francis Celoria: Islay Gazetteer. No. 7/31, 1960
- RCAHMS: The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Argyll: an inventory of the monuments volume 5: Islay, Jura, Colonsay and Oronsay. Edinburgh 1984. No. 115
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Coordinates: 55 ° 37 ′ 57.5 ″ N , 6 ° 10 ′ 39 ″ W.