Largs Pencil
North Ayrshire

The monument was built as a marker for the site of the Battle of Largs which took place near here in 1263. The Scots won.

Over the next twenty or thirty years the Vikings - led by Haakon Haakonsson, King of Norway - were hounded out of the western isles as well.

Both of the above views are looking north.

Looking south.

The wider area from the south.