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ARRAN: GIANTS' GRAVES
Arran: this is part one of a three-part video of a day-trip [Aug 2009] from Glasgow to Brodick (from where the Glens Rosa, Shurig and Cloy emanate), then by Island bus. The 323 Blackwaterfoot bus departs Brodick pier for the village of Whiting Bay, located 8 miles south of the ferry terminal on the east coast of the island.
The bus passes Lamlash Bay where in 1263, the Vikings of King Haco's fleet anchored before the Battle of Largs. Arran, according to Irish tradition, was also the home of Manannan mac Lir, the God of the Sea. However, the subject of this video is the atmospheric setting above WHITING BAY in ARRAN that is host to the 4000-year old, now roofless, tombs. These ruins are referred to as the GIANTS' GRAVES and are accessed from the coastal road on the Bay. A new long-winding zig-zag path leads to an area that is now totally devoid of trees that used to be home to those early Bronze Age horned galley graves. Nowadays, unfortunately, there are very few stones still remaining upright.
The Scottish public registers that are the Registers of Scotland contains the following entry: - The monument known as Giants' Graves, long cairns, Whiting Bay, Arran comprises two neolithic chambered long cairns of the Clyde Group, which are situated in a forestry clearing on the NE flank of Cnoc na Comhairle, overlooking Whiting Bay. The area to be scheduled measures 105m from NNW to SSE by 65m, to include the cairns and an area around in which traces of evidence associated with their construction and use may survive.
The monument, which lies in the Parish of Kilbride and the County of Bute and which forms part of the Lands and Earldom of Arran in the Parish of Kilbride (the present owner whereof being Lady Jean Sybil Violet Graham or Fforde, Strabane, Brodick, Isle of Arran), is hereby included in the Schedule of Monuments appearing to the Secretary of State for Scotland to be of national importance compiled and maintained by him under section 1(1) of the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979.
Whiting Bay is the third largest of the Isle of Arran's settlements after Lamlash and Brodick, and is named after the bay it runs along for over two miles near the southern end of the east coast. In the Gaelic the village translates as 'Eadar Dhà Rubha'. The name Whiting Bay is thought to originate from Viking Bay. As late as 1953, the main ferry serving Arran from the mainland called at Whiting Bay as well as Brodick.
The Isle of Arran itself is located in south-western Scotland, in the Firth of Clyde near Glasgow from where a combined boat and train ticket can be purchased [ £17.80 - August 2009, Glasgow Central Station]. Measuring approximately 167 square miles (433 km2) in area, the Island has a population of approximately 5,000. Although the seventh largest island in Scotland, Arran is not technically one of the Hebrides, being the southernmost of the Scottish islands. Arran is just 20-miles long and 56-miles round and in the Gaelic means 'peaked island'.
Often referred to as 'Scotland in Miniature', Arran offers visitors a compact and easily accessible island that mimics the geology of mainland Scotland, with a sparsely populated and mountainous northern half that contains the Corbetts Beinn Tarsuinn, Cir Mhor, Caisteal Abhail and Goatfell as well as the Graham Beinn Bharrain, with a flatter, more populous southern half.
Located close to Glasgow and Scotland's Ayrshire coast, Arran is a popular and easily accessible tourist destination and of course, a walker's paradise, with walks of every single description imaginable.
The village of Whiting Bay grew little by little from clusters of cottages on the shore and on the braes to crofts and farms, houses and hotels. The road to Lamlash used to go by Auchencairn until 1843 when the main shore road was built and gravelled. It was not tarred until the 20th century. The village began to take shape around the end of the 18th century with the construction of the pier and the expansion of businesses and the tourist trade and the opening then of golf, tennis, bowling and putting facilities.
On the hillside behind the old settlement of Largymore at the southern end of Whiting Bay lies the subject of this video - a prehistoric burial site referred to as the GIANTS' GRAVES where arrow heads, flint knives and pottery shards have been found.
The walk can be continued to incorporate the columnar basalt gorge of the GLENASHDALE FALLS and further continued to include the IRON AGE FORT.
On the high ground above the Falls, the Longheads, a tribe of men who lived in the Stone Age, built their settlement, and buried their dead in the funeral cairns of Glen Ashdale