In The Beginning

The history of mankind on Loch Tayside began some five thousand years ago. As the ice-cap receded, a rock basin gathered the waters which ran down the steep cliffs. The water, and the land around the basin,warmed
and man found that here was a pleasant place to live, where crops grew and beasts survived.

The most ancient memorial of man’s existence is the stone circle at Croftmoraig, some two miles east of Kenmore village. Why circles of stone were built is still a matter of controversy but the latest scholarship dates
them around 2500 B.C. In 1965 an excavation. carried out by a team from Edinburgh University, found there had been three phases of construction; first a ring-shaped setting of timber uprights, followed by an oval setting of
eight standing stones built on a made-up layer covering the post holes,and finally an outer circle of twelve standing stones. Another good example of a stone circle is to be found at Machuim in the field to the north of the Kuhn road, seven miles west of Kenmore. These circles have been mistaken for Druid circles when in fact they pre-date the Druids by many centuries.

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