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Submitted by Bladup on Sunday, 27 January 2013  Page Views: 5069

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Middleton Standing Stone (Isle of Tiree) Alternative Name: Barrapoll
Country: Scotland County: Isle of Tiree Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)

Map Ref: NL94694300
Latitude: 56.479799N  Longitude: 6.960775W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
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3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Middleton Standing Stone (Isle of Tiree)
Middleton Standing Stone (Isle of Tiree) submitted by Bladup : Middleton Standing Stone. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Standing Stone (Menhir) in Isle of Tiree

A big standing stone on the Isle of Tiree, about 2 m high.

Canmore site no. 21473.
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Middleton Standing Stone (Isle of Tiree)
Middleton Standing Stone (Isle of Tiree) submitted by markj99 : The NW face of Middleton Standing Stone looking SE towards Carnan Mor Radar Station across Loch a' Phuill. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Middleton Standing Stone (Isle of Tiree)
Middleton Standing Stone (Isle of Tiree) submitted by markj99 : The SE face Middleton Standing Stone, looking NW towards Middleton. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Middleton Standing Stone (Isle of Tiree)
Middleton Standing Stone (Isle of Tiree) submitted by markj99 : Approaching Middleton Standing Stone from SE. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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NL9442 : Standing stone Barrapol by Roger McLachlan
by Roger McLachlan
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NL9442 : Barrapol: a view from Ben Hynish by Chris Downer
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NL9442 : Clachan Dubh, Barrapol by Richard Webb
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NL9442 : Tigh Geal in Barrapol by Roger McLachlan
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NL9442 : Grazing land, Barrapol by Richard Webb
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Re: Middleton Standing Stone by markj99 on Sunday, 27 December 2020
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Middleton Standing Stone is a granite standing stone erected in a field WNW of Barrapol, Isle of Tiree. It has a broad base c. 1.0m x 0.7m according to Canmore ID 21473 rising to a broad point at 1.6m. The stone is 200m NW of Clachan Dubh, a thatched roof house in Barrapol.

Directions: From Scarinish, the largest village in Tiree, take the B8065 coast road heading W for c. 5 miles until you reach a junction with the B8066. Turn right for Heylipol. After c. 130 yards bear sharp left avoiding the B8066 Cornaig. Continue on the B8065 through Heylipol for 1.25 miles until you reach a crossroads. Go straight on following the B8065. Continue through the sparse community of Barrapol for c. 1.1 miles until you reach a thatched cottage, Clachan Dubh, on the right. There is room to park at the croft buildings adjacent to the cottage. A farm track starts just W of the cottage. Follow parallel to the road for 70 yards then turn right following a farm track NW for 150 yards. Middleton Standing Stone is 20 yards W from this point.
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Re: Middleton Standing Stone by Andy B on Thursday, 16 January 2014
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An extract from the paper "More than orientation: placing monuments to view the cosmic order" by Gail Higginbottom, Andrew Smith, Ken Simpson and Roger Clay:
Tiree CT8

In the northerly directions, NWN, only the major lunar standstill can be seen to set behind a distant prominent hill. In fact it sets in the SAME notch as that seen from CT7. The indicated orientation (CT8-CT7) is 24.6deg NE. The accompanying horizon declination for this alignment is +29.84deg, the rising northerly limit of the major standstill. So here, via site orientation and prominent peak, both the rising and setting of a limit of the major lunar standstill may be accounted for.

As usual, the two mountain chains are seen to flank the bay, with the southerly limit of the major standstill rising out of mountains east of the bay, climbing and travelling over the southern bay and setting in the mountains west of the bay, as for CT7.

Most fascinating is that the moon sets in a notch here and then reappears at the foot of the chain. Furthermore, this very notch may indicated by the alignments of “CT7 to CT8”, adding further weight to the idea that these two sites, CT7 and CT8, are indeed connected. Added to this the winter solstice sun is seen to rise out of the eastern chain of mountains and setting in the southwest, slightly west of the western mountain range. The same setting occurs, naturally, at CT7.

The southerly limit of the minor standstill sets slightly west of SW, having risen east of the eastern chain and travelled across the bay first and then over the western range of mountains. Notice in the northerly direction that at exact north a foreshortened horizon is chosen, being blocked out by a chain of mountains between 354deg and 10deg in azimuth.

More in the paper "More than orientation: placing monuments to view the cosmic order"
by Gail Higginbottom, Andrew Smith, Ken Simpson and Roger Clay
in in Amanda-Alice Maravelia (ed) Ad Astra per Aspera et per Ludum: European Archaeoastronomy and the Orientation of Monuments in the Mediterranean Basin and Beyond
http://www.academia.edu/5714907/More_than_orientation_placing_monuments_to_view_the_cosmic_order_with_Part_1_File_of_Text_some_illustrations_
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Re: Middleton Standing Stone by davidmorgan on Monday, 28 January 2013
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