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Machrie, Isle of Arran
 Machrie is on the west end of the string road; built across the centre of Arran in 1817 by Thomas Telford.
Machrie is home to artefacts dating from the Bronze Age. Hut circles
and standing stones can be found on Machrie Moor. The most
distinguishable of the circles consists of three upright red sandstone
pillars, the tallest of which is just over 18 feet high. Many of the
other stones within the circle have fallen and two of the granite
boulders within the circle have been carved into millstones still in
situ. The other tall pillar closer to the abandoned farmstead, looks
like a solitary standing stone but is part of a larger circle, the
stones of which have been removed or lie buried.
The second most
interesting circle is a double ring of squat granite boulders called
Fingal's Cauldron Seat. The outer circle is egg shaped but the inner
ring of eight stones forms an almost perfect circle. When this circle
was excavated a ruined cist was found but it did not contain any traces
of burial.
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