Cnoc Fada standing stones, Dervaig

While on our recent trip to Mull I went on an Islandscape photography tour with local photographer Sam Jones.  Last week I posted about the Tobermory Chicken Shed that produced some great images and one of the other areas that Sam took us to was the standing stones at Dervaig on the north of Mull, which I'd never visited before.  

Listed by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland as the Cnoc Fada standing stones, or sometimes by the more unimaginative Dervaig B standing stones, they are situated In a clearing in trees at the south end of Cnoc Fada, 850m E of Dervaig and 230m NW of the road from Dervaig to Tobermory. There is a linear setting of basalt blocks extending over a distance of 18.3m, with only two of the stones remain upright.

These shots were taken in late afternoon on an overcast day, which produced a diffused light that was almost perfect for taking images in a clearing of trees of this ancient monument.

There are ancient monuments all over Mull and I have also photographed the standing stones at Glengorm, situated a few miles away from the stones at Dervaig.  I find standing stones fascinating ever since I visited Stonehenge as a boy.  Who put them there and for what purpose, the answers lost in the mists of time.  But these monoliths remind us that people lived on these islands long before written records were kept.

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