Dog Stone, Argyll and Bute

Fingal's Dog Stone

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Named after the legend that the ancient heroic warrior of Celtic mythology Fionn MacCumhail chained his massive dog Bran to the stone, with the chain wearing down the base. It's actually a raised sea stack of conglomerate rock that was eroded around 10,000 years ago, before the land rose in response to the removal of the weight of the ice sheet.

Uploaded to Geograph by Hugh Venables on 9 September 2011

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