Loch Shiel and Glenfinnan Monument, Scotland

About this postcard

Loch Shiel runs north toward the hills, with the Glenfinnan Monument standing on the shore at the head of the loch and cattle grazing in a meadow in the foreground. A large tree frames the left side of the view. The monument is a stone tower raised in 1815 on the ground where Prince Charles Edward Stuart landed on 19 August 1745 and raised his standard, the act that opened the Jacobite rising. The printed caption calls Loch Shiel one of the longest and narrowest lochs in Scotland, closer in shape to a Norwegian fjord than to a typical Scottish lake, and describes Glenfinnan as a picturesque stretch of country at the loch's northern end.