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Poldean menhir
Trip No.164 Entry No.1 Date Added: 26th Jun 2021
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 25th Jun 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Poldean submitted by Apocryphus on 20th Jan 2019. A smaller stone located opposite Poldean Farm on a minor road south of Moffat
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Log Text: Poldean menhir: Re-visited this stone whilst in the Moffat area. Not much has changed, except the weeds have been allowed to grow high around the stone. The area around its base has been heavily trampled, and was difficult to walk across. Two VERY large, very handsome bulls in the field of pasture, but thankfully an electric fence between us and them.
Chapman's Stone
Trip No.164 Entry No.2 Date Added: 27th Jun 2021
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 25th Jun 2021. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 5
Chapman's Stone submitted by Anne T on 5th Apr 2019. Standing just to the north east of the stone, looking south west over the road, towards the course of the River Annan. Whilst Canmore classifies this stone as a prehistoric standing stone, they say "the stone traditionally marks the droving stance, and at a later date, the grave of a travelling horse trader" (called Chapman). We believe this is the ancient road to Carlisle from Glasgow, so the route may be really old, and this was one of the marker/way stone along that route.
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Log Text: Chapman's Stone: Again, our second stop of the day, and I'd remembered wrongly there was a stile which allowed access to the field with this stone in. Rather, the stone acts as a stile, although the height of the fence and the barbed wire at the top stopped us from hopping over; neither could we find a gate on the side of the field nearest the road.
Such a shame this stone hasn't been set upright again. The views in either direction are very pretty.
Skip Knowe
Trip No.164 Entry No.3 Date Added: 27th Jun 2021
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 25th Jun 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Access 4
Skip Knowe submitted by Apocryphus on 20th Jan 2019. On a minor road south of Moffat.
Located under trees and over a fence but close to the road. A substantial stone shown on OS maps
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Log Text: Skip Knowe Standing Stone, Gateside: Our fourth stop of the day, after having investigated Hodge Wells and Springs at NY 10960 95700 [not recorded here, as this is neither a holy well or sacred springs]. I've said this is Access: 4, when you can actually park on the grass verge right by the stone, but the grass verge is very uneven and difficult (for me) to navigate. Couldn't find part of the fence low enough to hop over this time (must have been repaired since April 2019), nor could we find a gate off the side of the field nearest the road.
Not much has changed about this stone. We managed to identify the second stone mentioned by Canmore, some 18ft from the main standing stone, but it did look more like 'just a boulder', which had other stones around it.
Very pleasant countryside, and no workmen erecting telegraph poles this time round!
Crunzierton Wood Scooped Settlement
Trip No.164 Entry No.4 Date Added: 27th Jun 2021
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 25th Jun 2021. My rating: Condition 2 Access 4
Crunzierton Wood Scooped Settlement submitted by Anne T on 27th Jun 2021. Standing in the middle of the southern bank of this settlement, looking north/north east across the sub-circular scoop. To the middle/left of the photo, the banks (which can more easily be seen with the naked eye) on the north western side of the scoop can be made out by the change in vegetation and the rise in ground level.
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Log Text: Crunzierton Wood Scooped Settlement: I found the 'scramble' up the steep, leaf covered slope to reach the settlement a little bit of a challenge, and rather than slide back down, we came back down on what had been a forestry track (now ruined by recent harvesting) on the north eastern side of the settlement.
What a pleasant part of the world, very rural, with what appeared to be mixed forestry rather than just pine.
Easier to see the outline of the settlement with the naked eye rather than try and capture it with the camera. Would love to come back when the undergrowth has died back.
Moffat Well
Trip No.164 Entry No.5 Date Added: 27th Jun 2021
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 25th Jun 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Moffat Well submitted by Anne T on 26th Jun 2021. Standing near the gate in the small field containing the spring and well house. A second spring emerges from the ground (indicated by the area of taller grasses and reads) just to the south-east of the well house. There is a pipe running from a tank inside the well house which would have/will run water down to Birnock Water gorge below.
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Log Text: Moffat Sulphur Well: I've described this location as 'good' because, as the well house itself is neglected and run down, the scenery around it is very pretty, and we enjoyed our visit.
Approaching the well from the small car park (having tripped over the low lying fence wire suspended 2 inches from the ground between the gate posts- beware!), we became aware of the strong smell of sulphur from about 10m away.
Taking a very deep breath of clean air, I ventured into the dark, dark, dank well house, and managed to take a few photos of the tunnel bringing water into the first of two troughs. No water flow was evident at the time of our visit, but there had been a prolonged dry period before hand.
Another spring appears to surface some metres to the south of the well, creating a boggy area with small ponds.
Looking down over the iron railing near the well house to the gorge below, we spotted a series of small waterfalls. Further north, there is a larger waterfall marked on the map, but by this time it was late evening, and we wanted to go home, so didn't venture further.