Ellisland Farm
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Ellisland Farm lies about 6.5 mi/10.4 km northwest of Dumfries near the village of Auldgirth, located in the Parish of Dunscore, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The complex is a museum in the farm Ro
Ellisland Farmhouse, Auldgirth
Ellisland Farm c. 1900
Ellisland Farm in 2009
Robert Burns by Alexander Nasmyth, 1787
Stone put
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The stone put is one of the main Scottish heavy athletic events at modern-day Highland games gatherings. While similar to the shot put, the stone put more frequently uses an ordinary stone or rock ins
Ellisland Farm
…brothers. Uncle Robert lived in the Kilmaurs and Stewarton area for many years and is commemorated in the churchyard. Burns apparently left his favourite putting stone at Ellisland and if he saw anyone using it he would call "Bide a wee" and join in the sport, always proving that he was the strongest man there. In…
The stone put event at the 2005 Whidbey Island Highland Games
Rob Roy's Putting Stone, a boulder supposedly used by Rob Roy MacGregor
Strongman legend Hafthór Júlíus Björnsson loads up to put the stone at the Scottish Highland Gathering and Games, in 2015.
A stone put from the Highland Games Sychrov in the Czech Republic, 2018.