Picture Dump!

A medieval lute inside the British Museum. You have to look at it in close-up, though; the details on the tiny figures making up the sides are incredible.

A Celtic metal ewer.

A Celtic cloak made out of a paper-thin sheet of gold. It could only be worn by a child or a small woman due to its size.

An angel from Bath.

The Royal Crescent in Bath, some of the city's most valued real estate.

The head of the cult statue of Athena at the Roman baths in Bath.

The millennia of mineral buildup have left the stones orange. Also you can see just how hot the water is from all the steam.

The edge of Dartmoor.

Some of the semi-feral Dartmoor ponies.

Another shot of the moor.

A wall from Tintagel Castle.

The wild Cornish coastline.

The apothecary's shop at the Old Operating Theatre.

A window display of old medicine jars from the Old Operating Theatre.

An amputation kit. You can probably figure out which tools are for what purposes.

The operating table, where people were held down and operated on, with most dying.

Somebody put a lot of time into these pumpkins at the street market.

Fish at the market, caught that day.

The view from the side of Buckingham Palace into Green Park.

The seal of the United Kingdom on the gates of the Palace. The lion is England, the unicorn Scotland, and the harp in the seal represents Northern Ireland.

An angel atop the Victoria Monument.

A glimpse of the Scottish landscape.

William Wallace's statue at the Wallace Memorial, high above the town of Stirling.

A shot of Rannoch Moor, where we drove through on our way up into the Highlands.

The Falls of Dochart.

Another shot of the Falls.

This area is called Glencoe, or the Glen of the Weeping. Explanations will be in the forthcoming post.

The mountains surrounding Glencoe.

Crazy Scottish autumn foliage.

Some bridges spanning a river we saw on the way to the Isle of Skye.

Tony, our guide, telling us about Robert MacKenzie and the Jacobite Rebellion.

The grave of MacKenzie, where he lies without a head. Again, explanations forthcoming.

A loch, with the mountains called the Five Sisters in the background.

Eilean Donagh Castle, which was blown up in the Jacobite Rebellion and rebuilt in the 19th century.

Tony showing us Scottish jujitsu on the Isle of Skye, beside the river where the Battle of the One-Eyed Woman was fought.

The pinnacle up there is called the Old Man of Storr on Skye, and it (like everything in Scotland) has a story.

The falls beside Kilt Rock, which is visible in the background. It's the same type of geological formations as the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland.

A view from Skye.

Loch Ness in the early morning.

A small brook running into Loch Ness behind the trees.

Tony insisted upon taking a picture of me picking Nessie's nose.

The memorial to the Jacobite highlanders who fell on Culloden Moor. Culloden has an incredibly sad story, to be covered, like all the other stories, in the next post.

The rocks have the clan names of the highlanders who fell at Culloden on them. The humps in the earth behind the stones are the mass graves the highlanders were dumped into by the British.

A stone erected by Neolithic people at the Clava Cairns, burial sites just outside of Culloden.

The entrance into one of two passage graves at the Clava Cairns.

The outside of the passage grave.

The snow on Cairngorm Mountain. Tony estimated that, with the wind chill, we were standing in temperatures several degrees below zero. Quite fun.

The landscape of Scotland from Cairngorm's summit.