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Lamlash
Date Added: 13th May 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Isle of Arran)
Visited: Yes on 6th May 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Access 4
Lamlash submitted by Aska on 16th May 2019. The 4 posters.
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Log Text: four main stones plus other small ones. an outlier to the SE. views of Goatfell to the NNW.
Giant's Graves (Isle of Arran)
Date Added: 13th May 2023
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Isle of Arran)
Visited: Yes on 6th May 2023. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 2
Giant's Graves (Isle of Arran) submitted by tsujigiri on 28th Jul 2005. First shot from behind the site. The day was a bit rainy off and on and the overcast sky made the lighting a bit iffy for my digital camera. The climb up was very invigorating and well worth the effort.
Unfortuneately, I neglected to get a shot from the front of the main site. Maybe next time I'm up there.
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Log Text: a large chambered cairn with large north facing facade. At its tail is a much smaller chambered cairn facing west. The cairns are on a 'land island' surrounded by lower land, with steep down hill to east (to the coast) and steep uphill to the west. Extensive views to Goatfell NNW.
Largybeg Point
Date Added: 13th May 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Isle of Arran)
Visited: Yes on 6th May 2023. My rating: Condition 2 Access 4
Largybeg Point submitted by Andy B on 5th Mar 2017. Another view of the alignment. Visited August 2016
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Log Text: two standing stones and possible cairn material. Located on a headland with view NNE to Holy Island and SSW to Ailsa Craig.
Torrylin
Date Added: 13th May 2023
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Isle of Arran)
Visited: Yes on 7th May 2023. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Torrylin submitted by cosmic on 11th Feb 2005. View from side
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Log Text: chambers align with Ailsa Craig/north south . sits on the old cliff, like the cairrn at the limekiln to the west across Torrylinn beck
East Bennan
Date Added: 13th May 2023
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Isle of Arran)
Visited: Yes on 8th May 2023. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 2
East Bennan submitted by zep on 1st Jun 2007. East Bennan Facade
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Log Text: A large chambered cairn with west facing facade and tail on a steep down hill to the beck. In front of the facade is a flat area before the hill rises.
Stronach Ridge Rock Art
Date Added: 14th May 2023
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Scotland (Isle of Arran)
Visited: Yes on 8th May 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Stronach Ridge Rock Art submitted by samricemonkey on 1st Sep 2013. Photo of cup-and-ring marks near Brodick, Arran (Stronach Ridge).
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Log Text: A 'wow' for rock carving afficionados. a perfect site to visit on a rainy day on Arran. The unusual 'lollypops' differ from the usual cup and concentric rings elsewhere.
Replica Bronze Age Round House at Brodick Castle
Date Added: 14th May 2023
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: Scotland (Isle of Arran)
Visited: Yes on 8th May 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Replica Bronze Age Round House at Brodick Castle submitted by drolaf on 14th May 2023. Brodick replica roundhouse
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Log Text: A great visit-the fire had been prepared 2 hours before, so the hot air and smoke was filtering well through the roof (bracken and thatch). Sat inside it was only smoky in the upper space. Definitely not as smoky as sitting round a fire in the open. A lovely space that seems so much bigger than its 6m diameter would suggest. We got about 20 people inside on the benches.
Auchagallon
Date Added: 13th May 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Isle of Arran)
Visited: Yes on 10th May 2023. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 4
Auchagallon submitted by ukvegan on 15th Oct 2010. Auchagallon stone circle overlooking Kilbrannan Sound. Just a wonderful space (August 2009).
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Log Text: a kerbed cairn on the hillside overlooking the beach and with views over to KIntyre. the western stones have been described as like a Scottish recumbent circle, with two tall stones flanking a low long stone.
Auchencar
Date Added: 14th May 2023
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: Scotland (Isle of Arran)
Visited: Yes on 10th May 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4
Auchencar submitted by Energyman on 8th May 2016. And with a bit of work done on it in RAW format
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Log Text: stands in a field of sheep, with double fencing. looked like no access at lambing time. can get photo with a zoom lens.
located on low land and orientated along the coast about SSE. a fallen stone nearby.
Machrie Moor 10
Date Added: 13th May 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Isle of Arran)
Visited: Yes on 10th May 2023. My rating: Condition 2 Access 3
Machrie Moor 10 submitted by AngieLake on 8th Sep 2008. Stones at the SW of the Moss Farm Road (or Machrie Moor 10) circle. The stone on the left resembles the head and shoulders of a hooded person. It faces into the circle, and towards the NE and Midsummer sunrise. There's a dip in the hills at NE, and my ritual movement dowsing headed out of the circle in that direction. Its inner face also seems to have a circular carving.
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Log Text: None
Tormore 2
Date Added: 13th May 2023
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Isle of Arran)
Visited: Yes on 10th May 2023. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Tormore 2 submitted by AngieLake on 9th Sep 2008. Going by my sketch on the day, this view is looking towards a gap in the hills to the NE.
[Checked this site grid ref on www.danu.co.uk/gallery/info/stones/mosscairn.html. Calling it "Moss Farm Cairn", "grid ref NR 90590 32367", they say that it is: "An excavated cairn circle which lies in a field south of trackway to Machrie Moor just west of Moss Farm."
It was definitely between Moss Farm Road Circle and the main Machrie Moor circles.]
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Log Text: this looks like it was a sizable cairn originally, east facing facade. It is located on a low hill overlooking the Machrie valley, and intervisible with the possible cursus on the hill to the SW.
Moss farm chambered cairn
Date Added: 13th May 2023
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Isle of Arran)
Visited: Yes on 10th May 2023. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Moss farm chambered cairn submitted by Bladup on 10th Jun 2014. Moss farm chambered cairn.
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Log Text: just two stones of a chamber left. possibly faced west, towards Tormore 2
Machrie Moor 5
Date Added: 13th May 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Isle of Arran)
Visited: Yes on 10th May 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Machrie Moor 5 submitted by jeffrep on 30th Jul 2013. Machrie Moor 5, sometimes called "Fingal's Cauldron Seat," consists of two almost perfectly preserved rings of granite boulders.
The Machrie Moor Stone Circles are located at the end of a 1-1/2 mile track that is off of the A841 (some 200 yards south of the bridge where the main road crosses the Machrie Water) and three miles north of Blackwaterfoot in the western part of the Isle of Arran in North Ayrshire, Scotland.
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Log Text: impressive double ring of granite stones. Like the other Machrie sites 'excavated' by Bryce the 'Destroyer', the centre is lumpy and may not represent original structure.
Machrie Moor 4
Date Added: 13th May 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Isle of Arran)
Visited: Yes on 10th May 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Machrie Moor 4 submitted by Bladup on 9th Jun 2014. Machrie Moor 4.
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Log Text: looks like a four 'poster' to me
Machrie Moor 3
Date Added: 13th May 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Isle of Arran)
Visited: Yes on 10th May 2023. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 3
Machrie Moor 3 submitted by DrewParsons on 12th Dec 2009. The fluted top of the tall remnant of Machrie Moor 3 looking towards the east. Photographed in October 2006
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Log Text: an impressive tall stone. it seems it is uncertain if the other stones were also tall.
Machrie Moor 2
Date Added: 13th May 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Isle of Arran)
Visited: Yes on 10th May 2023. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 3
Machrie Moor 2 submitted by DrewParsons on 12th Dec 2009. October 2006
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Log Text: three 'Stennes' like stones remain. other stones are either fallen, or otherwise dismantled. More of a square than a circle? Two millstones at the SE.
Machrie Moor 6
Date Added: 13th May 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Isle of Arran)
Visited: Yes on 10th May 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
Machrie Moor 6 submitted by Bladup on 9th Jun 2014. Machrie Moor 6.
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Log Text: the lowest and wettest of the Machrie circles in this group. just to the north of Machrie 1.
Machrie Moor 1.
Date Added: 14th May 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Isle of Arran)
Visited: Yes on 10th May 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
Machrie Moor 1. submitted by SandyG on 1st Feb 2019. View from above and west.
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Log Text: circle of 6 granite alternate with 6 sandstone boulders . on site of previous timber circle
Drummadoon Standing Stone
Date Added: 13th May 2023
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Isle of Arran)
Visited: Yes on 11th May 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Access 3
Drummadoon Standing Stone submitted by Energyman on 22nd Mar 2019. Looking to the North
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Log Text: stone aligns north south
Drumadoon Hillfort
Date Added: 13th May 2023
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Scotland (Isle of Arran)
Visited: Yes on 11th May 2023. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 3
Drumadoon Hillfort submitted by AstroGeologist on 3rd Mar 2019. Drumadoon Neolithic Hillfort
Drumadoon Hillfort - Facing NE
(09.08.18)
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Log Text: stunning views over to Kintyre