2017
NG5636 : It all started with a Hammer
taken 6 years ago, near to Inverarish, Isle of Raasay, Scotland
It all started with a Hammer
Here I decided to upload to Geograph. December between Christmas and New Year 2017 marching to Dun Caan on Raasay. Snow hail. Way home. It was getting dim and dark, when I got back to the old railway track segment that's off the main iron mine track further up beyond the hole in the ground. This hilly railway led to an old field with two earth heaps, they may be burial places or spoil heaps from the historic mining action, and ends there. If you follow the cairns at the bottom of the field to its middle and then tramp 20 or 30m down the slope back towards the road, you'll find this sole lonely rock cube. It could be anything, but probably no more than a piece of a stone wall. I took plenty of photos against the rain and none came out, over-flashing the lot. The top of this rock is flat, the T shape not passing through or rather all round the whole segment, and it appears to have rolled down there from a stone wall or cairn. I have no further knowledge on this find, and my stay was too short and the length of myths about Raasay too long. I was happy to get this shot in and crawl home. That's all.
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