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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Cillchriosd
Country: Scotland County: Isle of Mull Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Tobermory  Nearest Village: Calgary
Map Ref: NM3772553502  Landranger Map Number: 47
Latitude: 56.599811N  Longitude: 6.274733W
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4Short walk on a footpath
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1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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Cillchriosd submitted by NickyD : image Cillchriosd Image copyright: stonesearcher, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Standing Stone in Mull. 2.6m in height and 1.4m by 0.65m at the base. Aligned NW and SE, the sides are vertical and the top level.

This stone is nearly twice as wide than it is thick and according to Gail Higginbottom and the Western Scotland Megalithic Landscape Project it is aligned along the long axis to the Moon at the setting of the Minimum Lunar Standstill. (details in papers linked below)

Canmore site no. 21851.

Note: The latest exciting research from Gail Higginbottom linked below: Connections - the relationships between Neolithic and Bronze Age Megalithic Astronomy in Britain
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Cillchriosd submitted by postman : Site in Isle of Mull Scotland (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Cillchriosd submitted by DrewParsons : Site in Isle of Mull: Cup Marks on Cillchriosd Standing Stone

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Cillchriosd submitted by DrewParsons : Site in Isle of Mull Scotland: Cillchriosd Standing Stone photographed in October 2008

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Origins of Standing Stone Astronomy in Britain - Gail Higginbottom and Roger Clay by Andy B on Thursday, 11 August 2016
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Origins of Standing Stone Astronomy in Britain: New quantitative techniques for the study of archaeoastronomy by Gail Higginbottom and Roger Clay
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Volume 9, October 2016, Pages 249–258 doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.05.025

• GIS methods were developed to understand monument locations and their connection to landscape.
• A new statistical determination of astronomical connections for stone circles is presented.
• 3D-landscape reconstructions of Bronze Age megaliths contain specific visual choices.
• New 3D-GIS reconstructions of earliest Neolithic circles contain same visual choices as BA sites.
• Statistical support for earliest circles interest in same astronomical phenomena as BA sites.

By c. 3000 BCE, in the late Neolithic, there had been a significant change in the way people materialized their cosmology across Scotland with the introduction of free-standing stones that continued to be erected almost until the end of the Bronze Age (Burl, 1993, 2000). Significantly, a series of astronomical patternings have been empirically verified for many Bronze Age monuments that were erected in the latter Bronze Age (Higginbottom et al., 2000, 2001, 2015). Further, two series of complex landscape patternings associated with the monuments and their orientations have been identified (Higginbottom et al., 2015; Higginbottom and Clay, in press).

However, when and where these patterns were first associated with standing-stone structures was unknown. Through innovative statistics and software we show that visible astronomical-landscape variables found at Bronze Age sites on the inner isles and mainland of western Scotland were actually first established in stone nearly two millennia earlier, likely with the erection of two of the earliest dated British 'great circles': Callanish on the Isle of Lewis and Stenness on the Isle of Orkney.

In particular, we introduce our new statistical test that enables the quantitative determination of astronomical connections of stone circles. It is seen that whilst different standing-stone monuments were created over time (Burl, 1993, 2000; Higginbottom et al., 2015) with a mixture of landscape variables (Higginbottom et al., 2015), we nevertheless see that highly relevant landscape markers and other aspects remained unchanged through these years. This suggests that there is some continuity of this cosmological system through time, despite the various radical material and social changes that occurred from the late Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age

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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X16301808

https://www.academia.edu/11681397/Origins_of_Standing_Stone_Astronomy_in_Britain_Callanish_and_Stenness_now_published_with_JAS_Reports
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Connections - the relationships between Neolithic and Bronze Age Megalithic Astronomy by SumDoood on Friday, 10 June 2016
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This location is referred to in the thought-provoking, or so it should be!, article at: http://bit.ly/1YeucG7 i.e. *specifically*

Connections - the relationships between Neolithic and Bronze Age Megalithic Astronomy in Britain.
Gail Higginbottom & Roger Clay

It has already been empirically verified that for many Bronze Age monuments erected in the Late Bronze Age of Scotland, there was a concerted effort on behalf of the builders to align their monuments to astronomical bodies on the horizon. It has also been found that there are two common sets of complex landscape and astronomical patternings, combining specific horizon qualities (like distance and elevation) with the rising and setting points of particular astronomical phenomena. However, it has only been very recently demonstrated by us that that the visible astronomical-landscape variables found at Bronze Age sites on the inner isles and mainland of western Scotland were first established nearly two millennia earlier, with the erection of the mooted first standing-stone 'great circles' in Britain: Callanish and Stenness of Scotland. In this paper we demonstrate our preliminary assessment of the connection between the monuments examined by us to date and the large Late Neolithic circles south of Scotland, namely those of Castlerigg and Swinside in Cumbria, England and Druids Circle in Gwenydd, Wales

https://www.academia.edu/12629072/Connections_the_relationships_between_Neolithic_and_Bronze_Age_Megalithic_Astronomy_in_Britain
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Skyscapes and Landscapes in Prehistoric Scotland by Dr Gail Higginbottom by Andy B on Monday, 19 January 2015
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Focusing on the earliest periods of intensive monument building in prehistoric Scotland (3000–1000BC ), this study identifies how humans chose and made places that were important to them. It examines how megalithic monuments, especially the smaller ones, and the natural environment were used to create landscapes embedded with cultural meaning and remembrance.

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2014/skyscapes-and-landscapes-in-prehistoric-scotland
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Perception creates worlds - the phenomenological origin of the spatiality of Nature by Andy B on Monday, 19 January 2015
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Perception creates worlds - the phenomenological origin of the spatiality of Nature by Gail Higginbottom

This paper concentrates on Husserl’s vision of human experience where Husserl is influenced by Heidegger’s ideas on contextualising experience where the physical place of the individual affects what they experience. Here materiality and place conjoin to create known worlds and understandings. By studying only the primordial experience of vision we can come to know the World as it was presented to those past peoples who built standing stones in Britain. Based on initial research presented at EAA2005 and since expanded.

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https://www.academia.edu/6367035/Perception_creates_worlds_-_the_phenomenological_origin_of_the_spatiality_of_Nature_Husserl_most_recently_accepted_piece
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Re: Cillchriosd by coldrum on Sunday, 04 April 2010
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Cillchriosd by DrewParsons on Wednesday, 15 October 2008
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From Calgary take the B8073 east towards Tobermory for 400 metres. Turn north onto a narrow lane for 1.6 km. The stone is in a field on the right (east of the lane). Request permission to access it from the Cillchriosd Farm House another 200 metres along the lane on the right.

The single standing stone is approximately 2 metres high and has cup marks on its surface. There are fine views north towards the sea from the stone. Photographed in October 2008 while on a visit from New Zealand.
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    Re: Cillchriosd by golux on Tuesday, 20 January 2015
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    Since this is in Scotland there is no legal requirement to "request permission" to enter a field; to do so would be merely a courtesy to landowners or local busybodies.
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