In the tiny village of Malin More there's a wonderful alignment of portal tombs and a pair of standing stones over a quite straight line 175 metres long on a roughly east to west axis.
I started with the large portal tomb at the east end of the alignment and I have numbered the monuments from 1 to 9. It has been speculated that monuments from 1 to 6 might have been joined and covered by a giant straight cairn.
This is the monument number 8 in the alignment. It's in the field adjacent to the one where the monuments number 4, 5, 6 and 7 are and about 20 metres south of the imaginary line that starts from the tomb number 1.
It's small cairn of stones with a standing stone at the southeast (120°) end.
The cairn seems to cover a burial chamber beneath the ground. A nice block of quartzite nest to the standing stone is part of the cairn.
The standing stone is 78 centimetres tall.
|