Seven Heads
It is a tall needle-like monument topped by a sculpture of a hand
holding a dagger and seven severed heads - a reminder of one of the most
gruesome episodes in Scottish clan history. This was a bloody tale of
internal strife among different sections of one of the largest clans in
the Highlands, the MacDonald's.
What is striking about the story is the overwhelming sense of vengeance
and power masquerading as justice which typified the clan system and
over which the authorities in Scotland had no control.