Reflecting upon natural monuments in Argyll

A walk into the sky to explore the stony world on the summit of Goatfell, including a search for pitchstone.

Today, I explored the west coast of Arran, starting at an unusual monument before exploring the coastline. Here are a group of impressive caves, sources of pitchstone and a distinctive headland with a standing stone.

Arran was the source of an extraordinary raw material used by people in the Neolithic: pitchstone. During my visit, I was very interested to explore the origins of this unusual material. One location where it outcrops is high in the mountains.

A walk in the central Lake District, featuring a dynamic cloud formation and Neolithic worked stone.