* Astronomy

Machrie Moor - Stone Circles

The stone circles on Machrie Moor on Arran. Arran is a beautiful island which lies in the Firth of Clyde snuggled into Argyll's sweaty armpit. Archeo-astronomy, midsummer sunrise alignments and a wintery guide to the amazing complex of six stone circles on a peaty bit of moor on the Western side of the Isle Of Arran. This short video features a gaelic speaking gentleman who talks us through the various sites on the moor.

One of the largest areas of reasonably level ground on the Isle of Arran, lies in a broad triangle to the south of the Machrie Water as it makes its way to the sea a little south of mid way down the island's west coast.
People have been present in this part of Arran for up to 8,000 years, and for the last 6,000 of those years they have been living in ways that left a physical imprint on the landscape around them. The result is one of the most important prehistoric sites in Scotland, a fascinating and at times puzzling landscape in which people lived, farmed, and apparently expended a vast amount of effort creating sites where ritual activity could take place.
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