“People who were taken to ancient places as children often have fuzzy old photos of themselves at the sites. Such pictures increase in power as the years go by. The people who took us pass away, and we ourselves grow up and change, but the stones stay the same.”
Peter Ross goes in search of a standing stone.
Peter Ross’s Upon a White Horse: Journeys in Ancient Britain & Ireland is published by Headline
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/sep/11/standing-stone-childhood-photo-scottish-island-islay
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