Our next morning began with a visit to the Crannog Centre.
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This is a reconstructed crannog built on Loch Tay. You are probably wondering what a crannog is; well we learned all about them at the Crannog Centre! Crannogs are dwellings built in the water, and carbon dating identifies them as from the Bronze Age, or about 3000 years ago! Our group huddled inside the timber dwelling, and were sheltered from the storm just fine. Our tour group of 24 was probably similar in size to the family group that would have lived inside millennia ago. But we didn’t have any animals, and archaeologists did find evidence of stables inside the crannogs. So most of the islands you see out if the middle of lakes in Scotland and throughout the British Isles are probably remains of crannogs. So interesting to learn about these things I had never heard of!
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That one’s my size!
I mentioned the crannog providing shelter from the storm. And the storm provided our first rainbow sighting!
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