One final piece of history from Skipness. In the field next to the chapel is a concrete arrow, difficult to see on the ground. In WW1, this area was used for training Fairey Swordfish pilots to drop torpedos, and the arrow was part of their trial run.

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The view from what was the main gate of Skipness Castle, the Isle of Arran across the water.

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Skipness Chapel is around 200 metres from the castle, and roughly the same age. Dedicated to St Brendan, it contains some interesting headstones, and is still occasionally used for burials.

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Skipness Castle, begun in the 1200s, and much altered over the following three hundred years. In a beautiful, but strategically important, spot.

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Some of the rock formations along the coast of Kintyre are spectacular. These images are from near Skipness, and I think show layers of sedimentary rock, forced almost vertical by shifting plates, and then eroded over time. Any geologists are welcome to put me right!

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