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Tyrebagger
Date Added: 8th Jul 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jul 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Access 3
Tyrebagger submitted by Suncircle49 on 15th Aug 2022. Collection of photos of the recumbent 16-21/6/19: Canmore describes Tyrebagger with ‘a fallen recumbent’, but my first impressions, it’s a ‘Dolmen’. The recumbent and its flanker’s are very different to any existing RSC in Aberdeenshire. Its alternative name DYCE which is very similar to DYSSE meaning ‘Dolmen’. A recumbent on stone mounts…. a Dolmen?
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Loanhead Of Daviot
Date Added: 8th Jul 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jul 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Loanhead Of Daviot submitted by Suncircle49 on 23rd Aug 2022. 19/06/2019 08.41: A beautiful sunny morning, perfect for flying a drone. The aerial photos showed clearly the shadow in the slit of the recumbent, ending midway along its length. However, what was interesting was the shadows of the standing stones which touched the inner ring of the RSC. The next morning at Easter Aquhorthies I saw similar shadows.
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Balquhain
Date Added: 8th Jul 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Balquhain submitted by krautrock on 28th Jul 2010. Balquhain Stone Circle. It's not easy to spot the circles in the field in summertime.
June 2010
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Log Text: the 3.2m quartz outer is an imposing stone. lichen does not seem to grow on quartz, so it is bare rock. The landowner is very proud of it and said that in the full moonlight the stone gleams. it would have been a beacon from afar.
Esslie The Greater
Date Added: 8th Jul 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jul 2023. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Esslie The Greater submitted by safesurfer65 on 15th Oct 2015. Esslie The Greater taken from above with a Quadcopter. Taken February 2015.
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Garrol Wood
Date Added: 8th Jul 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jul 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Garrol Wood submitted by hamish on 11th Dec 2005. These stones are the left arc of the circle.
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Links of Noltland
Date Added: 27th Jun 2023
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jun 2023. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Links of Noltland submitted by SandyG on 17th Jun 2015. Bronze Age house. Note the slab lined tank adjacent to the doorway and the absence of paving slabs around the entrance. (12th June 2015).
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Log Text: the site is covered with old tarp and stones, but a couple of houses you can see the central hearths.
Auchquhorthies
Date Added: 26th Jun 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Jun 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Auchquhorthies submitted by mattchapman on 12th Apr 2012. Looking SE
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Log Text: i parked up the road in an empty farm yard. it's about a km walk from there, along an old track (don't block this). no gates. the site is more overgrown than old photos, but someone cuts the grass now and then. Take care as it is lumpy stones under the long grass. The stones seem to be local rock, as i saw several red granite, quartz and mica encrusted stones in the field walls and clearance dumps. quite an exotic feel.
the stones are verging on monumental. a red granite west and quartz east. the west flanker is quartz and the recumbent's top is a fat quartz vein. other stones are notable for their 'pointy' ness.
Droughduil Mote
Date Added: 21st Jun 2023
Site Type: Timber Circle
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 28th Sep 2018. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Droughduil Mote submitted by drolaf on 28th Sep 2018. mote from NW
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Belas Knap
Date Added: 17th Jun 2023
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jun 2017. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
Belas Knap submitted by drolaf on 1st Jun 2017. Detail of the stonework on the northern horn at Belas Knap which possibly means good view hill.
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Log Text: a mile walk from Cleeve common car park
Rivock
Date Added: 17th Jun 2023
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: England (Yorkshire (West))
Visited: Yes on 7th May 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Rivock submitted by drolaf on 7th May 2017. Pendle hill from Rivock edge rock carvings
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Log Text: limited parking at road
Skipsea mound
Date Added: 17th Jun 2023
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: England (Yorkshire (East))
Visited: Yes on 15th May 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Skipsea mound submitted by drolaf on 15th May 2017. Mound from the south low land
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Log Text: limited parking by gate at road
Rudston Monolith
Date Added: 17th Jun 2023
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Yorkshire (East))
Visited: Yes on 15th May 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Rudston Monolith submitted by drolaf on 15th May 2017. Small standing stone 40m NE of monolith. Monolith just visible behind.
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Log Text: short walk from road by church
West Tump
Date Added: 17th Jun 2023
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 27th Jan 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
West Tump submitted by drolaf on 27th Jan 2017. West Tump (Cranham) long barrow is about 60 metres long, and faces east. It lies in quiet mixed and beech woodland, so is in good condition and is not hard to find, up the hill but not on the crest. There is also what might be a ww2 bunker nearby.
Trees on the barrow have been felled and brushwood marks the barrow borders, and acts as a barrier to off road bicycles. The barrow's future seems secure.
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Log Text: access can be from road, park near old timber yard.
Duddo Five Stones
Date Added: 17th Jun 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jul 2016. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Duddo Five Stones submitted by drolaf on 9th Jul 2016. blue hills of Yeavering and Akeld to the south of Duddo
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Log Text: about a mile from road layby
Brackenbury Ditches
Date Added: 17th Jun 2023
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jun 2016. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Brackenbury Ditches submitted by drolaf on 23rd Jun 2016. Brackenbury camp from the north, above North Nibley.
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Credenhill Camp
Date Added: 17th Jun 2023
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Herefordshire)
Visited: Yes on 12th Nov 2015. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Credenhill Camp submitted by drolaf on 12th Nov 2015. view from Credenhill to southwest, the Dorstone ridge. This really is a superb hill to visit, and a lovely van friendly car park.
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Log Text: car park at foot of hill
Croft Ambrey
Date Added: 17th Jun 2023
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Herefordshire)
Visited: Yes on 13th Nov 2015. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Croft Ambrey submitted by drolaf on 13th Nov 2015. View south from Croft Ambrey. summer 2015
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Yarnbury Henge
Date Added: 17th Jun 2023
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 3rd Oct 2018. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Yarnbury Henge submitted by drolaf on 3rd Oct 2018. view SW to Pendle hill
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South Sannox
Date Added: 14th May 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Isle of Arran)
Visited: Yes on 4th May 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
South Sannox submitted by Aska on 16th May 2019. Can you recognize the circle?
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Log Text: a lovely little banked circle, on the lower slopes of Goatfell. Leveled with banking to the N- NE. No obvious entrance evident and about 15m diameter. so maybe not a hut circle. or, maybe a hut circle.
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.