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Archaeolink
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Museum
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2008
Archaeolink submitted by aluta on 3rd Aug 2007. The henge and recumbent stone circle at Archaeolink. Both are reproductions for educational purposes. A turf hut, built to reproduce one found in the archaeological record, can be seen in the distance.
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Log Text: It was always pretty naff, to be honest. And the price! Turned up for the wickerman each Samhain though.
Easter Aquhorthies
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2010. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Easter Aquhorthies submitted by rldixon on 27th Nov 2007. Easter Aquhorthies recumbent stone circle aberdeenshire taken 2007
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Log Text: Oft-visited circle.
Marischal Museum
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Museum
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2008
Marischal Museum submitted by cosmic on 28th Aug 2005. The impressive frontage of Marischal College - one of longest granite facades in the world.
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Log Text: I miss it!
Forvie 'Stone Circle'
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2010. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Forvie 'Stone Circle' submitted by golux on 23rd May 2010. When I visited the given location all I found was this marker confirming I was indeed at the exact spot - but there was no stone circle to be seen. Could it be that the alleged stone circle is actually one of the hut circles or cairns listed on this site?
This whole area is closed from April to August to protect the birdlife so I guess I will have to have another look in wintertime.
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Log Text: Two circles side-by-side and close to several cairns.
Forvie Sands Flint Workings
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2010. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Forvie Sands Flint Workings submitted by cosmic on 4th Oct 2008. Flint Nodules
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Log Text: All very visible.
Mummer's Reive
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 1st Jan 2008. My rating: Ambience 3 Access 3
Mummer's Reive submitted by cosmic on 4th Aug 2008. View from South
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Log Text: One of those I never quite got round to visiting. Could see it from the road.
Picardy Stone
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Class I Pictish Symbol Stone
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2009. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Picardy Stone submitted by jeffrep on 20th Feb 2008. The Picardy Stone In Its Enclosure, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
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Log Text: Good stone, pity about the metal railing surround.
Midmar Kirk S
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 5th Nov 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Midmar Kirk S submitted by krautrock on 31st Jul 2010. Midmar Kirk S, Recumbent Stone Circle on a churchyard.
June 2010.
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Log Text: One of the best known sites in Aberdeenshire.
Raedykes Roman Camp
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Couldn't find on 27th Mar 2011. My rating: Ambience 4 Access 3
Raedykes Roman Camp submitted by C_Michael_Hogan on 3rd Oct 2007. Raedykes Roman Camp: ramparts and defensive ditch along the eastern perimeter. The view is looking northward with Curlethney Hill in the background.
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Log Text: Note: don't rely on friend's innaccurate iphone GPS. Bring a real map instead.
Woods of Dunnottar Cairn
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 21st Oct 2006. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Woods of Dunnottar Cairn submitted by coldrum on 29th Jun 2011. Cairn in the woods.
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Log Text: That's a big cairn...
Breemie Stones
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2004. My rating: Access 3
Breemie Stones submitted by sacredway on 23rd Apr 2007. Looking over the granite recumbent and flankers towards the Barmekin Hill at Echt (hill fort remains on top of the Barmekin hill). Note the shape of the recumbent mimicks the shape of the Barmekin Hill and the distant Hill of Fare. It was aligned to this hill on its SW axis. The left flanker is about 6.5 feet tall.
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Log Text: Modern but still quite interesting.
Hill of Christ's Kirk
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 6th Dec 2008. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 4 Access 3
Hill of Christ's Kirk submitted by cosmic on 29th Apr 2006. Christ's Kirk from Wantonwells
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Log Text: Despite repeated visits I've never seen any earthworks on this hill.
Castle Fraser Row
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jan 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Castle Fraser Row submitted by cosmic on 24th Sep 2005. Pair from WSW.
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Log Text: Tall. In the middle of a cultivated field though.
Hill of Barra
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 31st Jul 2008. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Hill of Barra submitted by bobs on 29th Jan 2004. Hill of Barra Iron Age Hillfort in Aberdeenshire, which also has traces of mediaeval ridge and furrow cultivation. Access is by a track off the main Inverurie/Oldmeldrum road. The track is long and uphill all the way. Wear stout trousers if climbing to the top, because there are wicked gorse bushes all round the base, whose thorns find any way they can to scratch your legs. I know this from bitter experience! Seeing the deep ramparts of the fort and the beautiful views of the surrounding cou...
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Log Text: Covers quite a big area. Earthworks are fairly visible.
Liggar's Stane
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Jun 2008. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 1 Access 5
Liggar's Stane submitted by cosmic on 23rd Oct 2004. What a sad end.
This stone is worthy of mention only because it appears on OS Maps as a Standing Stone. It has been moved and broken with this fragment used as a wall end.
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Log Text: Somewhat disappointed by the size. Uncertain if it's even the correct stone...
Baron's Cairn
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Apr 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Baron's Cairn submitted by hamilton on 5th Feb 2012. Baron's Cairn on Tullos Hill, near the coast, just south of the River dee estuary.
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Log Text: Actually quite nice.
Tullos Cairn
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Apr 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Tullos Cairn submitted by cosmic on 5th Sep 2004. Tullos Cairn from E
This is one of four scheduled carins on Tullos Hill just to the south of Aberdeen. The others are Baron's, Cat and Crab's.
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Log Text: Sprawling dessicated mass.
Lang Stane (Aberdeen)
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2003. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 2 Access 5
Lang Stane (Aberdeen) submitted by cosmic on 30th Aug 2004. Ancient and Modern
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Log Text: Big. Stands in the middle of an estate.
Tuack
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Mar 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 3
Tuack submitted by Cosmic on 14th Mar 2004. Tuack from the north-west
The only reason I'm convinced I've got the actual site is the ditch
which surrounds it. At the edge of a rookery this site has a couple of
upstanding (rather than standing stones) and a ditch of the correct size
(just over 7metres).
The main track up the hill is blocked by a high gate and barbed wire,
presumably to prevent access to the quarry sites and ubiquitous
telephone mast which now straddles the hill. The actual circle is down
in the South most corner o...
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Log Text: Participated in Richard Bradley's excavation there for about a week. (He calls it 'Tuach', BTW).
The Langstane
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 20th Jan 2012. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 5
The Langstane submitted by cosmic on 29th Mar 2004. The Langstane at NJ938059 is situated only 30m from one of Aberdeen's main thoroughfares at the junction of Dee Street and Lanstane Place. It is embedded into a recess at the back of a branch of a well known fastfood restaurant.
It appears close to its present site on G&W Paterson's 1746 map of Aberdeen but it is suspected that it may have been part of a stone circle on the West side of the Denburn. Another stone, the Crab Stane, appears on the same map.
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Log Text: Hard to miss when you're an Aberdonian. It's often thought that the Langstane and the nearby Crabstane have been given each other's names.