Druid’s Stone on the Island of Gigha
Watercolour, crayon and gouache
©1995 Charlene Brown
The Standing Stones of Scotland were likely erected in the third millennium BCE during the Neolithic Period. Many, including this one, were associated with the Celts’ Iron Age priests in the early first millennium BCE.
Some of these pre-historic stones were inscribed much later, in the fifth and sixth centuries of the first millennium CE, using an alphabet created specifically to represent the Gaelic language. Then in the ninth century a few had Celtic crosses added.
The Druid’s Stone, shown here with the Paps of Jura in the distance, doesn’t have any of these inscriptions, so I’ve overlaid a few on the painting.
