The Eagle Stone Cache Traditional Cache
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Park at the Station Visitor Centre and then follow main road on foot East out of the village, and look for signpost to the Eagle Stone in a gap in the beech hedge. The path is muddy and quite narrow.
The Eagle Stone (Clach na Tiompain) is one of the earliest known Pictish carved stones. On it one can see the carved shapes of a horseshoe and an eagle (which it explains its name). The precise meaning of the stone is not known: it may have marked a boundary of some sort, or a grave, or it may have had some other religious significance. It dates approximately from before 800AD, as stones from the 8th and 9th centuries often included the cross, since Christianity had been introduced by then. Local legend has it that the Brahan Seer, who lived in the 17th century, prophesied that when the Eagle Stone fell for the third time, ships would be able to sail up to Strathpeffer. To date the stone has fallen twice, so it has now been firmly embedded in cement ….. just in case!
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Ybbx sbe n orrpu gerr ol n zrgny tngr.
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